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What's a company secret you can share now that you no longer work there? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 102 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Some places are insanely polluted to the point where you wonder how a whole company could be so braindead and essentially poison themselves.
A place not far from where I live had a chemical plant which just dumped loads of chemicals on a meadow for years. Now there are ground water pumps installed there which need to run 24/7 so that the chemicals don't contaminate nearby rivers and hence the rest of the country.
When taking samples from the pumped up water you can smell gasoline.

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  • [–] 90 points 3 years ago

    We're house shopping and there has been a house on a lake sitting on the market forever. I got curious and researched the lake and... It's a literal superfund site. The company that was on the other side of the lake just dumped their waste chemicals right on the shore and it has polluted both the lake and ground water forever essentially because they don't break down. I looked up the previous owner... Died of cancer. The shit that companies are and were allowed to get away with is just insane. Meanwhile right wing nut jobs want to get rid of the EPA (which was ironically created by Richard Nixon).

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago

    Some places are insanely polluted to the point where you wonder how a whole company could be so braindead and essentially poison themselves.

    "That's the future guy's problem, my problem is making money."

    No need to wonder. That's how.

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