BASF's way to deal with toxic chemical waste
Lex Wassenberg
>
>Just dump it in the Rhine and when someone notices it tell them you've
>had a minor technical problem.
>
>Ask BASF as they used this trick 13 times last year and keep on using it,
>where the most recent dumping was only a week ago.
You think that's a JOKE? Well I personally don't think it is.
And yes, because it happens several times a year (you can rely on it,
there will be no 3 months without any "accidents" at BASF), I personally
boycott all products of BASF (floppiess, videotapes, musicassettes,
whatever more that I know is manufactured by BASF (which is probably far
more than what I know :-( )).
Mind you, this is personally, and has nothing whatsoever to do with
my employer or his politics.
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Pim Zandbergen
>A child recently said that a fitting punishment for people responsible for
>these anti-social kinds of things would be to make them swim in the Rhine.
>Now what would you say if we all went to BASF and made the whole board of
>directors go for a couple of lanes?
Yes! And let's tell the press it was an accident. (-:
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Gertjan van Oosten
>In eunet.jokes Dolf Grunbauer writes:
>>Just dump it in the Rhine and when someone notices it tell them you've
>>had a minor technical problem.
>>
>>Ask BASF as they used this trick 13 times last year and keep on using it,
>>where the most recent dumping was only a week ago.
>You think that's a JOKE? Well I personally don't think it is.
A child recently said that a fitting punishment for people responsible for
these anti-social kinds of things would be to make them swim in the Rhine.
Now what would you say if we all went to BASF and made the whole board of
directors go for a couple of lanes?
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Kruijswijk Lucas B
>le...@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Lex Wassenberg) writes:
>>In eunet.jokes Dolf Grunbauer writes:
>A child recently said that a fitting punishment for people responsible for
>these anti-social kinds of things would be to make them swim in the Rhine.
>Now what would you say if we all went to BASF and made the whole board of
>directors go for a couple of lanes?
Greetings,
Lucas B. Kruijswijk lbk...@cs.vu.nl
Martin Weitzel
>ger...@westc.uucp (Gertjan van Oosten) writes:
>
>>A child recently said that a fitting punishment for people responsible for
>>these anti-social kinds of things would be to make them swim in the Rhine.
>>Now what would you say if we all went to BASF and made the whole board of
>>directors go for a couple of lanes?
>
>Yes! And let's tell the press it was an accident. (-:
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for all the people (out in the world) who may get an improper
impression on how contaminated the river Rhine really is I want
to add some serious information:
Due to a lost bet, one of the ministers of the current government
(don't no any more exactly, either Klaus Toepfer or Norbert Bluem)
had to cross the the river Rhine swimming. Maybe that he regretted
this promise after loosing the bet, but he had to do it (and of course
doing it brought him some publicity). I think it was near Mainz,
where he crossed the Rhine. Mainz is located downstream from the
BASF, but maybe still upstream from some other big contaminators.
The Minister is still living.
I don't want to justify what the BASF and others are doing to the
Rhine, the river definetly *is* dirty and contaminated, but not
sufficiently to kill someone who swims through it.
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S Matthews
<In article <1990Sep18.2...@cti-software.nl> p...@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) writes:
<<ger...@westc.uucp (Gertjan van Oosten) writes:
<impression on how contaminated the river Rhine really is I want
<to add some serious information:
<
<Due to a lost bet, one of the ministers of the current government
<(don't no any more exactly, either Klaus Toepfer or Norbert Bluem)
<had to cross the the river Rhine swimming. Maybe that he regretted
<where he crossed the Rhine. Mainz is located downstream from the
<BASF, but maybe still upstream from some other big contaminators.
<The Minister is still living.
Isn't Mainz about 150 km downstream; and anyway, according to what I
have heard, the minister (Toepfer) was wearing a protective rubber suit
not just a pair of swimming trunks.
Sean
Michel Wurtz
>
> Due to a lost bet, one of the ministers of the current government
> (don't no any more exactly, either Klaus Toepfer or Norbert Bluem)
> had to cross the the river Rhine swimming. Maybe that he regretted
> this promise after loosing the bet, but he had to do it (and of course
> doing it brought him some publicity). I think it was near Mainz,
> where he crossed the Rhine. Mainz is located downstream from the
> BASF, but maybe still upstream from some other big contaminators.
> The Minister is still living.
>
fishers. Last year, I was near Strasbourg... and there were still fisher
there... but *very* less fishes! Do you think somebody (a german minister
after a lost bet for example) will eat this fishes (remember Minamata)?
Some years ago, I saw a photography: the quality was pretty bad, but the
revelator very inexpensive: Rhine water.
I regret it, but the Rhine is now just a giant garbage collector, warmed
by the french nuclear power plant (I think an alligator can leave in the
Rhine, even in winter!).
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