US EditionGreenpeace Recorded Further Asbestos Findings in Burgenland
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The waves after the asbestos scandal hit high. Further greenpeace finds are at a McDonald-s playground and an Asfinag resting place in Burgenland. Lower Austria is also affected, a wide-ranging air measurement starts. According to concrete information from the Burgenland population, the environmental experts from Greenpeace had other places tested by an independent laboratory on asbestos. Also this time, the samples contained partly more than 50…
Greenpeace Reveals Serious Asbestos Threat Affecting Playgrounds Along the Hungarian-Austrian Border
The organization inspected suspicious stone debris in several public areas, including rest areas and playgrounds, on the Austrian-Hungarian border. In some places, fist-sized, crumbling stones containing asbestos equivalent to five hundred times the health limit were found lying around.
At the beginning of January critical asbestos levels were measured in quarries in Oberwart. Now Greenpeace took further samples: the carcinogenic material is also present on a McDonald's playground and an Asfinag resting place on the S7.
The environmental protection organization Greenpeace has found an increased exposure to carcinogenic asbestos fibres at three other locations in Burgenland. The playground of the fast food chain McDonald's in Oberpullendorf, the Asfinag-Rastplatz Mogersdorf on the S7 and the business park Steinberg-Dörfl are affected, it was said on Thursday in a message. McDonald's now removes the gravel from the playground. The Asfinag has closed the resting p…
According to information from the Burgenland population, Greenpeace has again had several sites examined by a laboratory for asbestos.
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