Two Protests, Two Continents: Grassroots Movements Against Toxic Waste Disposal - Non Profit News

Two Protests, Two Continents: Grassroots Movements Against Toxic Waste Disposal - Non Profit News

Image credit: Markus Spiske on Unsplash In late 1984, the Bhopal Gas Disaster led to the deaths of more than 22,000 people and the poisoning of more than half of the City of Bhopal in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India. Just six years earlier, rural Warren County, NC, put itself on the map when community members rose up through multiyear protests against the discriminatory disposal of cancerous polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which led to the …