Do you have an examples of pollution in Eastern Europe?

Question

I'm trying to find examples to put in my powerpoint in pollution & communism in eastern europe but all I have at the moment is that in the Czech Republic the air pollution is bad enough that it's linked to birth defects and cancer. Do you have any?

and if you say "Yes" or "No" I am just going to thumbs down your answer. -_-

Answer 1

what about the radioactive pollution that was caused by the big nuclear accident Ukraine.

Answer 2

The biggest polluter in Bulgaria is probably the Kremikovtsi plant.  It's huge and has been polluting Sofia's air for years now.  It's one of the things Bulgaria inherited from the communist era.  There are huge debates now whether to close it off completely and build something on its place.  Nothing can be grown there as the soil is super poisonous.

http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/kremiko...

Answer 3

Since they don't really have much in the way of monitoring over there it will be difficult to pinpoint or quantify.  I would guess all of the "data" is estimates at best.

Answer 4

I lived in Poland for 2 years not long ago.  One of the biggest issues facing everyone in Eastern Europe is packaging believe it or not.  If you think about it, under communism there was 1 kind of flour to buy for example.  It was in a brown reuseable bag.  Now 25 different flour companies compete for consumers' attention.  So now the packaging is glossy and waxed and trucked across countries and not reuseable at all.  Expanding that idea to almost everything people are buying means more and more waste is generated.  I toured a Polish landfill.  They have no way of handling the added waste everyone is generating.  It's sad.