Making shipbreaking a safer craft

Every day, hundreds of workers dismantle large vessels at Aliağa, Turkey, in the heart of ancient Aeolia. Ships are pulled ashore and cut, piece by piece, over the concrete floor - to prevent any leftover fuel and toxic waste from polluting the ground or spilling into water. Piles of sorted scrap metal are sent to melting plants that provide up to 3 percent of Turkey's gross steel production.

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[pitelis]

My maternal grandparents were greek refugee and expelled violently from their homeland of Aliaga after the Catastrophe of Smyrna or the Great Fire of Smyrna by Turks in 1922.Back then the majority of Aliaga's population was from Greek descent and the city was called Mirina( greek Mύρινα) but they forcibly banished after the Conference of Lausanne and under the threat of Turkish National Movement

Ironically the engineer 0:48 (Dimitris Ayvatoglu) who works in this industry is Greek...

[serothehero222]

Fuck european research!