The Worst Man Made Disasters by Wendy Stenberg-Tendys
There are 1,060 hazardous waste sites on the list of the environmental Protection Agency, U.S.A. They have recently added a further 10 toxic waste sites to the 527 contaminated properties which endanger life.

Here are just a few of the worst man-made disasters, as toxic contamination is a world-wide problem and not limited to any one nation.

The most toxic place in the United States, Picher, Oklahoma, was once the world's richest zinc and lead mining field, housing 20,000 people. Less than 25 people remain. Mountains of mining, lead contaminated waste, loom over the empty town, which has a toxic water supply.

Fishing boats rust in a vast, contaminated desert wasteland, the Aral Sea, which was drained empty by Soviet irrigation. Guiyu is the world's second-most polluted place on the planet.

China's biggest e-waste village, where electronic trash is dismantled by hand to extract wires and ... Read more »