Alang

What of the Cruise Ship Platinum-II, smuggled from the San Francisco, USA full of toxic and hazardous waste, dumped in Alang, India this week illegally against all international law and policy?

Indian PM making first official state visit of Obama presidency 2009

It contained amazing pictures and an equally remarkable story about the process by which ships are broken down and sold for scrap steel in a place called Alang, India.

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Haminuddin, fondly known as Alang, decided that dates would best symbolise the Hari Raya celebrations as the fruit is popular when breaking fast.

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Vivek Prakash/Reuters Juhu Beach near Mumbai Thursday; the beach got a new water feature when the cargo ship Wisdom, being tugged to the Alang scrapyard in Gujarat from Colombo, broke away in rough weather and drifted until it ran aground.

Asia in Pictures 2011

The 175-meter-long Wisdom, which was being tugged to the Alang scrapyard in Gujarat from Colombo, broke away in rough weather and ran aground Sunday.

Asia in Pictures 2011

The 175-meter-long Wisdom, which was being tugged to the Alang scrapyard in Gujarat from Colombo, broke away in rough weather and ran aground Sunday.

Asia in Pictures 2011

Vivek Prakash/Reuters Juhu Beach near Mumbai Thursday; the beach got a new water feature when the cargo ship Wisdom, being tugged to the Alang scrapyard in Gujarat from Colombo, broke away in rough weather and drifted until it ran aground.

Asia in Pictures 2011

These movements complain against disproportionate pollution (at local and global levels, including claims for repayment of the “carbon debt”), they complaint against waste exports from North to South (e.g. the “Clemenceau” and so many other ships to be dismantled in the beaches of Alang in Gujarat, or electronic waste), they complain against biopiracy, and also against Raubwirtschaft, i.e. ecologically unequal exchange, and the destruction of nature and human livelihoods at the “commodity frontiers”.

Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth 2009

Our livers manage toxic waste, something that Alang is very familiar with, although less skilled at neutralizing.

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One way to eliminate market overcapacity is to destroy the ships in question, and this is happening at breakneck speed, making places like Alang busier than ever.

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