Title: The Top 20 Biggest Man-Made Disasters | by Audrey Wright | Medium
Headings: The Top 20 Biggest Man-Made Disasters
The Top 20 Biggest Man-Made Disasters
A collection of the biggest disasters we caused to the Earth.
1. The Bhopal Gas Leak
2. The Jilin Chemical Explosion
3. The Tennesse Coal Ash Spill
4. The Sidoarjo mud volcano
5. The North Pacific Garbage Patch
6. The Gulf War Spill
7. The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
8. The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
9. The Guiyu E-Waste Dump In China
10. The Baia Mare Water Cyanide Contamination
11. Chernobyl
12. London’s Great Smog
13. The Minamata Disease
14. The Libby Montana Asbestos Contamination
15. The Love Canal Toxic Landfill
16. The Centralia Fire
17. The Door To Hell
18. The Death Of Aral Sea
19. The Palomares Incident
20. Castle Bravo

Content: A total of 52 square kilometres of land is buried in iPhones, Galaxy S4s and other famous electronic devices. Even though of e-waste can’t possibly compare in size with world garbage, it contains the intimidating amount of 70% of all heavy metals in the landfills. In time, they leak out of the appliances and guess what, end up in the land, air and water. Pretty much all of the surrounding area and especially the rice supplies are exposed to lead poisoning. Guiyu’s children have a 54 percent higher lead levels in their blood than those of the nearby town Chendian. On top of that, the methods of disposal and reprocessing are highly outdated. Some include literally burning the piles of electronics to retrieve precious metals, which furthermore pollutes the area. Soil samples from a Guiyu workshop show 371 times more lead and 115 times more copper in comparison to samples taken 30 kilometres away. The environmental impact from electronic waste is one of the largest growing problems in the world as of now. Consider that next time you drop your batteries in the general trash can.