KS78
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"In May of 2018, Dutch forest ranger Erik de Jonge decided he'd had enough. "Dear ecstasy users. It's 3.39AM. We've been working since 6PM to clean up the waste from your little pills," he tweeted.
De Jonge works in North Brabant, a province in the south of the Netherlands, where most of Europe's MDMA is manufactured. To produce the drug you need chemicals such as hydrochloric acid and acetone. After the pills have been pressed, a large amount of surplus chemicals are left, with experts in local government saying around 200,000kg of drug waste is produced every year in the province. Pretty much all of this is dumped out in nature – sometimes up to ten times a week – for people like De Jonge and his team to clean up.
The waste is often driven out in barrels stacked in vans, and discarded in deserted sections of nature reserves. A driver ropes the barrels to the back of the car and around a tree; this way, as the van drives off, the barrels fall out and the waste is dumped. It all happens so quickly, there's little chance of getting caught."
You can read the rest of it @ https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/...-are-dumping-tons-of-waste-in-nature-reserves
De Jonge works in North Brabant, a province in the south of the Netherlands, where most of Europe's MDMA is manufactured. To produce the drug you need chemicals such as hydrochloric acid and acetone. After the pills have been pressed, a large amount of surplus chemicals are left, with experts in local government saying around 200,000kg of drug waste is produced every year in the province. Pretty much all of this is dumped out in nature – sometimes up to ten times a week – for people like De Jonge and his team to clean up.
The waste is often driven out in barrels stacked in vans, and discarded in deserted sections of nature reserves. A driver ropes the barrels to the back of the car and around a tree; this way, as the van drives off, the barrels fall out and the waste is dumped. It all happens so quickly, there's little chance of getting caught."
You can read the rest of it @ https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/...-are-dumping-tons-of-waste-in-nature-reserves
