How Albania Became Europe's Rubbish Tip
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Published 2016-08-08
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"For us, the Roma, it is our only work, because nobody will hire us", says Renato, a scavenger earning half the average national wage. In the "dustbin of Europe", countries such as Serbia, Slovenia and Russia dump their scrap in vast quantities. Yet Albania's infrastructure is insufficient for dealing with this often toxic waste. Despite efforts to restrict imports, waste continues to enter under the guise of "raw material". In towns such as Elbasan, home to a large metallurgical plant, the poor control on the industry is beginning to destroy the health of its workers. As one doctor describes, "On one hand, the community has been here for a long time, and needs work. But on the other, it cannot afford the sacrifice".
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All Comments (21)
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Dear friends, if you are blessed enough to be born in a developed & privileged country, then thank God for that instead of looking down on / talking down to others. No matter how bad their situation is, God loves them too. Peace!
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Well I am from Albania and I want to share with you that things have changed a lot in 4 years. We have done a lot of progress and we are almost closing the landfills and conserving the waste to turn them into gasses. People arent collecting cardboard or metals anymore but they are working legally in the landfills maintenance. This is a lot of progress but we have a lot more to do!
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I live in Albania and seeing this makes me realise how many poor families struggle to survive. . it's horrible that our government imports trash from other countries
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They're driving a car on British plates, different number on the front and rear... I'll just leave it there.
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Imagine these kids sorting garbage without any gloves..my heart feels heavy seeing them.
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Oh , i've only seen the beautiful part of Albania, but .. even in America trash dumps like these exist and homeless and impoverished people collect scraps to sell to recycling yards. No country is without some bit of poverty i think. Just my 2 cents.
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This is the true face of UK recycling
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1:15 Albania, barely any larger than Britain?? Britain is 10 times the size of Albania! What kind of documentary is this?!
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why is it that roma people are living in conditions like this everywhere? mystery huh
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Iam from Albania and Albania media never speaks about this.
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Albania is not the worst country, there are lots of beautiful places in there
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I've visited albania last year. It's a beautiful country with so much problems. It's a shame to see all the fighting among the different minorities and majorities. You are all sitting in this boat together and I know, if one day, you put your heads all together, you can improve your lifes alltogether. Please don't waste your energie in these useless fights amoung one another. Albania is beautiful.
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I am from Serbia and i know that those are not Albanians lol.... that are probably some gypsies -__- in Serbia they live the same but they are not Serbian lol
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4 years later and this place is transforming to a great park outside the city
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"Huge dumps are invading a country, barely any larger than Britain" What?
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support from Greece...what ever people are saying Greece will always be a shelter for you till your country stand on her feet again
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I'm from albania, the people in this video are not albanian. they're people from other countries that stay as gypsies in our country, so horrible of you to say something like that, people saying trashbania, what is wrong with you?
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For people complaining this is a misrepresentation of the country, just want to say they've been doing this to African countries for decades. Always show a small portion and make it seem as the whole country is that way...I feel ya mate.
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Time 1.14. I quote: " Huge dumps are invading a country barly any larger than Britain". When you skip your geography class because you think it is stupid. :D
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prettiest city in Analbania
