It's not sexy. It's toxic coal ash.

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Via Lynn Hasselberger

on Sep 15, 2010

It ain’t sexy. It’s toxic coal ash. (video)

Enough to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool every two and a half minutes.

Photo: greenpeace.org | Coal ash storm in Shui Mo-tou Village

China’s coal-fired power plants dump enough toxic coal ash to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool every two and a half minutes, Greenpeace says in its latest report The True Cost of Coal: An Investigation into Coal Ash in China. Coal ash has now become China’s largest single source of solid waste, due to the country’s heavy reliance on coal.

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Lynn Hasselberger lives in Chicagoland with her son, husband and two cats. She loves sunrises, running, yoga, chocolate, reading and writing, and has a voracious appetite for comedy. The founder of myEARTH360.com, Lynn is also a marketing consultant and writes for her blogs I Count for myEARTH and LynnHasselberger.com. She's a treehugger and social media addict who you'll most likely find on twitter (@LynnHasselbrgr, @myEARTH360 and @IC4ME) and facebook. She hopes to make the world a better place, have more fun, re-develop her math skills and overcome her fear of public speaking. Like her writing? Subscribe to her posts.

Randi Young says:

September 18, 2010 at 07:30

This is so ridiculous! I can't stand to watch things like this and know that it's simply because their government- the people with financial control- do not CARE whether or not these families can farm. (Or EAT, for that matter!) This is really heart-breaking. Thanks for posting, Lynn.