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Regional Center for Sustainable Development - Kratovo Goce Delchev 24, 1360 Kratovo
Telephone/Fax: 00389 31 481 542 E-mail: [email protected]
www.regionalencentar.org.mk
www.volunteerecologykratovo.blogspot.com
Thirty years ago and earlier, most of the garbage thrown away in Macedonia contained natural sub-stances. There was not much plastic or dangerous chemicals contained in the garbage. So if it was thrown into illegal dumps or the river, there was much less negative pollution of the ground and water. Unfortunately, most of our garbage today con-tains plastic or contains dangerous chemicals. Plastic has made our life quite convenient. But plastic is made from oil and it contains chemicals that are bad for our health. Plastic will take 450 years to 1000 years to decompose completely. However, it does decompose a little bit at a time, especially if it is in water. As it breaks down little by little, it releases dangerous chemi-cals into the water or ground. Plastics contain endocrine disruptor chemicals, like phthalates and bisphenol A (BPA). Your endo-crine system controls your hormone levels. Endo-crine disruptor chemicals trick our bodies into thinking that they are hormones. These disrupting fake hormones can cause breast and prostate cancer, obesity, neurobehavioral problems, and reproductive abnormalities, cardiovascular dis-ease, type 2 diabetes and abnormalities in liver enzymes. It is time to get familiar with the environment we live in and how we need to take care of the envi-ronment. Please do not contribute to illegal dumps. Use the proper dumpsters and cans and remember the 3 R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!
Please see the report on our blog for all scientific references.
Health Effects How Illegal Dumping
Affects You
Kratovo May 2010
This project was implemented by: The Regional Center for Sustainable
Development-Kratovo
Partner: Regional Roma Educational
Youth Association
Thanks to the project of UNDP "Sustainable Mining Clean Up and Pollution Management in Bucim and Lojane Mines"
for the financial and technical support for project implementation and preparation of this brochure.
We would like to thank the Municipality of Kratovo for publishing Kratovo’s Local Environmental Action Plan (LEAP). The informa-tion from the LEAP provided the initial data that was essential
for starting and completing this project.
Project: “Getting the Facts, Informing the Citizens”
This project was lead by the Youth Volunteer Club
“Volunteer Ecology Kratovo”
We would like to thank our data gatherers: Jordana Mаја Mladen Toshe Merjan Jaime Jessica Paul
Locations of Illegal Dumps Locations of Illegal Dumps in Kratovoin Kratovo
Significant FindingsSignificant Findings
We found 7 sites where illegal dumping is taking place. These sites are all lo-cated by or in the rivers. The wild dumpsites are also contributing to the numerous points of garbage accumula-tion along the rivers.
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See our full report with
photographs at
Illegal DumpsitesIllegal Dumpsites SizeSize
Near Argulishki Bridge and Burekov Bridge 330 m2
Merak Neighborhood 1550 m2
Koshari Neighborhood 1829 m2
Near the bridge by the Bus Station 2394 m2
Karshi Bavcha Park 3076 m2
Near Jokshirski Bridge 4019 m2
Stara Musala 4993 m2
