Society. Solvents, acids... Amazing Figures of the Impact of Drugs on the Environment
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The clandestine production of synthetic drugs generates 5 to 30 times their volume of chemical waste, points out a note from the OFDT. Wastes that pollute all media, even at very low concentrations. Moreover, people can, without their knowledge, ingest or breathe residues of these products. - They pollute soil, water and alter biodiversity: the heavy environmental impact of synthetic drugs (Environment).
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INTELLINEWSAccording to the French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Addictive Trends, the manufacture of amphetamines, methamphetamine, MDMA or others pollutes water, soil and the atmosphere.
The French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Addictive Trends warns about the massive ecological impact and health risks associated with chemical waste from trafficking.
"The clandestine production of synthetic drugs generates five to thirty times their volume of chemical waste, which, released anarchically, pollutes waters, soils and atmospheres, and alters biodiversity, even at very low concentrations," points out this note, based on surveys carried out around the world. All stages of trafficking in amphetamines, methamphetamine, MDMA, ketamine and other synthetic products, by their nature, escape all environm…
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The French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Addictive Trends has looked at the angle, which has not been explored so far, of the global environmental consequences of the manufacture of narcotic drugs such as MDMA or amphetamines. A subject that arises with even greater urgency as clandestine laboratories multiply in Europe.
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