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English: Rubber Plantation, Melton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. A field full of discarded tyres at the old Capper Pass works on Brickyard Lane, Melton. On Monday 20th November, three days after this photograph was taken, the BBC local news programme Look North reported that firefighters were attending because the field had been set on fire. Pollution on this site is nothing new. The Capper Pass tin smelter produced over 100,000 tonnes of tin per year between 1967 and 1991 and discharged vast quantities of toxic byproducts into the air and the River Humber. During the plant's life a disproportionate number of children in West Hull villages were found to be suffering from cancer. Lead and arsenic was found in cattle grazing nearby, meaning livestock and crops had to be condemned on several farms. The British Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) found up to six times higher arsenic levels in river fish than anywhere else in British estuary waters. In June 2000 former owners Rio Tinto offered financial settlements to workers who were not properly protected from exposure to lead, arsenic, cadmium and radioactive substances. The site was decommissioned in 1995 but is still said to be contaminated. http://www.hullwebs.co.uk/content/m-21c/newspapers/cappa-pass.htm |
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| Author | Paul Glazzard |
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