C8, Hex 6, and Companies Producing and Polluting PFOA Forever Chems are STILL doing this Legally no matter what the Sales of Julia Robert's or Mark Ruffalo's Movie Produce.
True. But the difference is that the government can regulate those entities, whereas laws only apply to gangsters in theory. There's no enforcement mechanism besides violence against a violent gang, whereas at least you can fine, sue, or put regulations on pharma companies.
@@stooge389That’s true but it almost never happens and we see time and time again how corrupt governments like the US’s are. On top of that, since rates of legal prescriptions of depressants and birth control are so high, the by-products from human excretion into the environment are enormously high - and that’s not even from the drug manufacturing processes. The only way to really stop pollution from drugs is for people to choose to not take them; that’s easier said than done though of course.
It's no different in the United States with "legal" chemical products, a friend of mine many years ago, worked as an analytical chemist testing each batch of product synthesized. If he dropped a 1 ounce glass vile sample that was supposed to be tested for the latest batch analysis, his nose would instantly start bleeding, they would evacuate the lab and hazmat would have to "clean" the lab. He would not have work that next day. This company produces metric tons of this product. When they make mistakes during production, they just dump it down the drain on "accident" because it's cheaper to pay the EPA fine than it is to clean it up. So it basically gets dumped into the water supply chain of this Midwest city. The EPA knows it's not really an "accident". But they rely on the payout. This is true and happens EVERYWHERE! YOU WANNA KNOW WHY YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY ARE GETTING CANCER?!?? HMMM , I WONDER ABOUT THAT
It’s the exact same way with chemo drugs. When my grandmother had cancer and was in the hospital, a nurse dropped a vile of what was basically 3% mustard gas. Thats one of the main chemo agents. They had to move EVERYBODY on like half the floor then call in the hazmat team. Who really just use activated charcoal. Which oddly enough is what truly protects you in a protective suit from chemical agents.
Dow chemical. Midland county Michigan. I know who your talking about. They destroyed the tittabawassee River as well as poison the water supply and the air.
This is the beginning of the end, we can still clean the water for ourselves, but not for all living things on the planet. Species die out because of the same problems as humans. Corporations without brutal regulation are pure evil.
@@ethanoverwatch407 I know. We've been losing the war on drugs for decades. It's high time we tried a different approach. If all drugs were legally sold in the same places they sell cannabis now, we'd get rid of many problems caused by prohibition.
Yup. And the way capitalism functions is very, very simple. Paying a fine is "X" dollars, but doing something properly costs like "3x". Therefore... YOU do the bloody math. ;) If you ain't rich, you ain't competitive. If you ain't competitive, YER DONE. Yer done. It's over. Your business is nothing; meaningless. Therefore, you either play the game, play the people, con society... or you GET THE HEYLL OFF THE MERRY-GO-ROUND, suckah! lol
In the US they were having problems with people getting sick from living in homes that have been previously been used to cook in. I guess the chemicals can collect into the materials of the homes and if it's not hazmat cleaned or replaced it's very dangerous. People weren't being notified ahead of time that their new homes had been old cook labs and their families were getting very ill.
You don't have to note that you "guess". It's literal science. For a completely different but equally profound comparison, cigarette smoke penetrates and permeates BRICK. Also, it saturates plastics, carpeting, drywall, etc. Most people already know this. Now imagine *FAR* more toxic chemicals melding with the beams, paint, and flooring in your own apartment or home.
You're talking about meth right? The good news is the EPA put regulations in place for cleanup after home laboratories using dangerous chemicals were reported. The bad news is the regulations are voluntary.
@@dexterrity what? No. Wood is a pourus, concrete is pourus, tile is pourus, drywall is pourus. Safe to do what you said? Maybe. Best practice? Rebuild. Unless you're talking about tobacco only then yes, sorry. If you're also talking about meth then I stand by argument
I lived in the Netherlands for four years, when I returned to my country I discovered that I had developed a disease called hairycell leukemia. It's difficult to know the cause of this disease, but I lived close to a paint factory, and the entire environment in the Netherlands is somewhat chemical, due to its legal and illegal industry.. there is the issue of environmental genetic interaction too, but this documentary increases the possible suspicions or hypotheses to explain this disease. I'm in remission anyway, even though it's a chronic illness
Sorry to read about your illness. I am Belgian and when i travel to Spain by car, on the return way.. a little less than half through France driving north.. you can start smelling an incredibly, faul, industrial smell... i started calling it the central european stench. My sister experiences the same. She has COPD a lung illness.. she breathes better in Spain. When arriving back in Belgium she feels tired all the time. Central Europe is a cancerous, industrial stress hole. I am grateful for what i have but we are far too materialistic... it's sick.
Just scrolling through my feed on youtube and watching this finding out this is like almost next to my house lol. Epic to see an international documentary in my local neighbourhood
And yet it's proven that the pharmaceutical industry contributes much more to environmental pollution, regulated or not. When the penalties for getting caught improperly disposing of toxic waste are much lower than the cost of properly disposing of the waste the fines are just accepted as the cost of doing business. And the penalties are always lower than the cost. Yes, this is bad, but it's nothing compared to the pollution caused by the world's militaries, agriculture, pharmaceutical production, industrial pollution, etc. If that isn't stopped, stopping all pollution from illicit drug production is completely pointless. It's like the plastic industry telling us to recycle more. It's just a distraction, a scapegoat.
@nath_goat5597 Both damage caused by drugs and tax taken on sale scale directly with the amount of drugs sold. Having a tax on drug sales ensures that there will always be money available for addiction treatment and harm mitigation which does not depend on how politicians feel that day.
@nath_goat5597 taxes pay for public infrastructure (roads, schools, hospitals etc), and in this case could also pay for education/rehab around said substances.
An ensure that schools discuss regularly such and Such drugs they're affects dangerous on the individual announces Society and on the biosphere and provide concrete examples: people come in and talk about their addictions
Without a demand for the products there would be no need for the supply. It's a waste of time and money chasing after the producers as there will always be another.
It's a waste of time to chase after adults who choose to use any psychoactive compound. Humans have seeked a change of perception likely for as long as there has been humans. Imagine them busting illegal coffee roasting operations. Safe production + safe access = safe people
@@georgetanasa3843 I suppose they can legalize cocaine and speed … the population will get addicted to drugs, but hey, at least it creates competition for the illegal producers
@@flameoflifecreations8959with drugs, there will ALWAYS be a black market as someone will be cheaper, even weed in NL is expensive compared to the black market which is the same weed
Well, the more difficult and treacherous the manufacture, the higher the likelyhood that someone will take shortcuts - like incorrectly disposing of chemical waste . But as others have said, disposing of it correctly is expensive, and even legitimate initiatives still dump waste as a cost -cutting measure It's the nature of the beast, and it unfortunately carries no obvious answer. Maybe the government could incentivise people to build business' that specialises in disposing waste and can do so at a price that's alluring to these companies (legit or otherwise) maybe even a way to ensure the process is anonymised (if targeting unlegit waste) when receiving the waste but the process of disposal itself is logged to ensure lack of environmental impact. Who knows?
This will never end. Ever. People want and use these. From addicts/non-addicts, both young/old professionals, stable/unstable, religious/non-religious humans. It. Will. Always. Be. Around.
Where do you think pharmaceutical companies using the same chemicals dump their chemicals? They dumped it in the rivers, and some still do, up until the 1970s. Now there are special lands to dump on but still the same to the environment. Alternatively they burn them into our atmosphere.
finally someone mentions this if it wasnt for the war on drugs they wouldnt need to dump there waste down the toilet the drugs could be regulated and the waste can be properly disposed of something that wont happen if the failed war on drugs continues to happen
It's almost like a replay of the times people tried to ban the consumption and production of alcohol. Although alcohol is a drug so, I guess that really shouldn't be surprising.
They will never legalize drugs because then the American jails would be empty and they wouldn't need so many people. The drug war can never end there's to much money involved
@@user-rw311 You are right . AI : The American prison population increased with 700% since 1970 . 2,300 million prisoners " . Guards , kitchens , food , beds , doctors , medical rooms enso-on . Big business !
Sure would be great if they just legalized it with regulation because that's the only way to actually stop illicit production and illegal/dangerous dumping of toxic chemicals.
It is legal. Its called stimulant drug. Police is doing a favor to drug companies and psychiatrists. You need to make fancy degree in pseudoscience and wear a beard, then you are called a doctor and can make real money!
Your missing the point, and depending on the country even 'legal' highs are now banned, In no country in the world is ecstacy/meth legal to buy@@michasosnowski5918
Even in the netherlands its technically illegal to possess cannabis but they choose not in inforce it, up to 5grams is legal but growing and selling big quanties is illegal@@michasosnowski5918
maybe we wouldn't have this problem if these substances were legal and quality controlled by the state, on top of providing safe places for people to get high, because let's be real, they do get high all the time
I know it seems counterintuitive but perhaps there should be a no questions asked 24/7 toxic waste depots where these folks or anyone can leave their spent chemicals/chemical reactions. These expensive chemicals could perhaps be recycled, partially recycled or at least properly disposed of. Why? As you can see dumping in the woods, streams, drains etc. has a much more expensive and catastrophic result to people, animals and the environment than proper recycling/disposal. The toxic waste disposers would have to pay a fair disposal fee at the depots. There should also be small taxes assessed for certain know environmentally detrimental and repetitively found chemicals at the sale or importation so before the synthesis. This preemptive tax could also help pay for "clean ups" and depots. The goal would be to get as close to 0 clean ups as possible. These wholesale drug manufacturers need to be more responsible it's their home as well. This might make it easier/cost effective for them to do the right thing.
@@kristensorensen2219 Well yes. Can you really not see what the outcome would be? Just stop for a minute, and think about it. Unlike the idea of legalizing all of it, which, even though that sounds bad, would mean that if it all was legal, it would all be regulated. However, if you have a depository for the waste of illegal substances, there would be no regulation of what goes into those substances while enabling them to be made any horrible way.
@@Hollylivengoodanalysis and synthesis. the issue is being able to communicate without fear of arrest. the premise of prohibition is to ignore the feedback in society which governs out of control behavior
00:03 Synthetic drug production generates highly toxic waste endangering communities. 03:03 Undercover Dutch police raid a suspected drug lab in a village near Limburg. 06:07 A drug laboratory under construction with hazardous substances and toxic chemicals. 08:53 Netherlands is Europe's biggest center for producing synthetic drugs 11:43 Toxic waste from drug production poses environmental and health risks. 14:22 Drug production in the Netherlands has significant environmental and public health impacts. 16:42 Illegal drug waste disposal poses severe environmental and public health risks. 18:48 Toxic waste from drug production poses serious dangers 21:12 Drug waste contains carcinogenic substances with unknown risks to humans and nature. 23:31 Customs officers struggle to detect drug precursor chemicals 25:59 Public help in detecting drug laboratories to disrupt drug cartels
Great documentary. Vice showed something similar in Columbia at a cocaine refining facility in the jungle. It seems to me that legalizing and regulating these industries is the way to go. The demand is strong, the willingness to produce it is there, why not let them produce it above board and test for quality control and environmental regulations as well. Take the $ out of the cartel hands and put it into the hands of the chemists who are not dumping sulfuric acid in the water.
It cannot be think how many jobs would be lost such as judges, prisons, police officers. Keeping illegal drugs illegal is a highly profitable business on both sides. The police are the ones that control the drugs trade.
The chemicals always seem to be in these containers. Can't they incorporate a tracing solution? Then the government can bill the manufacturer for the clean up costs. Watch how quickly the manufacturers become more responsible about who they sell them to.
Most of the chemicals as mentioned in the documentary come from China. Since we saw the customs team investigating the shipping container, we can also conclude that the chemicals come in illicitly. These factors in mind, I do not believe that your proposal would have much effect, as even if the Netherlands were able to get such a system up and running on a global scale, I highly doubt that the trace chemicals would be added to the goods slated for smuggling.
People will just make and supply their own barrels that dont have tracking. The drug trade doesnt run on legitimate paper trades. Almost EVERYTHING is obtained illegally including all of the lab equipment, chemicals and the barrels they come in. Everything. Just tracking the barrels creates a colossal MOUNTAIN of work for someone to ultimately achieve almost nothing.
As a dutch citizen I cannot laugh harder about the incorrect statements , ideas and apparently crazy street prices we have. Imagine we could sell XTC for 5 a pill damn.
Obviously legalizing and regulating proper drug laboratories is the answer. Proper manufactuers could make ecstasy pills for more like $.20 than the cost of a $20 pill on the street which isn't even guaranteed to be safe.
Legalizing will make them like big pharma. Several years later people will complain that they're too huge. The small players are left behind. Bla bla bla, people never stop complaining.
@@bltzcstrnx yeah, people will never stop complaining, but I would argue that the better of the options is legalization with reasonable regulations that allow over-the-counter use. I think 90% of the problems with pharmaceuticals, at least in the US, is that it's nearly impossible to know how much they will cost, let alone does anyone care because it's someone else paying the bill 90% of the time whether that be the government or health insurance. Also, why exactly do we need pharmacies for 80% of drugs? I should be able to buy drugs I know I need without my doctor explicitly approving it each and every month in addition to an overeducated guy in a white coat who counts pills for a living barring me from simply buying the drugs in a straightforward manner just like I can with NyQuil, Tylenol, Advil, Melatonin, Unisom, etc? It's clearly the medical lobby getting the government to force people to use the services of pharmacists (who in reality should only be needed in rare circumstances) and to use doctors more frequently than necessary
Hey DW, pls do a report on chemical factories in Europe that discharge toxic chemicals into the air? I'm not a supporter of drug production but a media company should not just create sensational material without presenting the whole picture.
Shouldn’t antidepressants like ecstasy be manufactured at scale legally so that there’s no need for black markets? Especially since it’s significantly less harmful compared to substances like alcohol and tobacco. Either way, seems like people will take them regardless, it’s a just a lot safer if it’s not run by gangs.
There'll always be a black market for any substance that's valuable. Just look at America with its legal cannabis market. There's still a striving demand for it on the black market. Same with pharmaceuticals in the US. Even with a tightly regulated pharma market there's still a huge demand for pharmaceuticals from outside the US like Mexico, Canada, India, and China. The reason why these underground markets strive is because they are able to provide products with less regulation.
Where I used to live (no names!), the fire dept responded to a call on a fire in a meth lab right on the bay, half a mile from downtown. They were about to use water (well, that's what you do with a fire, right?) when somebody, fortunately, discovered a 55 gallon steel drum full of metallic sodium and stopped the FD from causing an explosion that would have required a new map of the city to be drawn! Talk about toxic waste! This was an highly explosive _ingredient_!
LEGALISE THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This way you'll be able to control the production of it, receive tax money to the budget, dose safely and recycle the waste!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@TiborRoussou They have ALREADY ruined your lives! That's what I'm saying: the government MUST take control by legalising all of these substances to be able to control their production, monitor ingredients and restrict their sales to save many many lives! The revenue must go to govenrment, not criminals and the revenue and tax money off the sales must be used to build rehabilitation centres, not enrich violet criminal gangs!!!
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You can actually make MDMA from vanillin, its cleaner :D You can also use piperine from black pepper. Both of which end up in piperonal as the precursor, and from there it's only a few steps. I know you can start with polystyrene, because styrofoam is so plentiful its basically free.... then depolymerize that into styrene and, and go to nitrostyrene from there... which is like a universal precursor to all phenethylamines and amphetamines. But that just seems quite toxic xD (I do not condone the use or manufacture of illegal drugs... i am simply a person who loves knowledge :D)
@@henkstoomflat8840 stole my words you can say what you want about drug users but stoners are pretty much immune to criticism people spend just as much on worthless things they don't need and i know multiple stoners in their late 80's
23:06 This is very short sighted. Banning the precursors will only lead to more steps, because now thr criminals need to synthesize the precursors as well. With each step in the process there is more chemical waste that is produced. An actual long-term solution would be to legalise and heavily regulate the production of these substances. Then it's no longer gangs that procude them but companies that should be able to be held responsible
if it wasnt for the war on drugs they wouldnt need to dump there waste down the toilet the drugs could be regulated and the waste can be properly disposed of something that wont happen if the failed war on drugs continues to happen
Superheating, vaporizing and cumbusting with a catalytic converter works well. Pure oxygen (not O²) and methane or ammonia added to the process, will render everything into CO² and nitrogen...mostly.
You cannot regulate manufacture if you don't legalise it! If I were an illicit drug chemist, should I take all of the hazardous waste to a proper disposal site? That would be a HUGE red flag! I would be STRONGLY disincentivized, because then the police would know what I was doing, and I'd be arrested and stripped of my freedom!
@@AquaticGems That's not true a lot of companies has poisoned the entire world with compound that don't break down at all. Towns and rivers there are a lot of these accidents. Many cases companies would just release all sorts of chemicals in local rivers.
Thanks DW for the investigation ,most of ours people have been affected by some factories waste. not only for drugs all other chemicals in different industries , Dw continues tell us the truth ,we need you to come in Africa coz alot of people are being affected . Alot of Chinese have been open factors in rural Africa ,
The irony is immense, especially when there’s kids at music, festivals, and raves, who take drugs and claim to care about the environment, but have no knowledge or either they don’t care about the toxic byproducts that are created in the manufacturing of the drugs that they consume so ignorantly
@@ryanreedgibson Well, Portugal became a model for progressive jurisdictions around the world embracing drug decriminalization...but maybe ..is it time to reconsider this country’s globally hailed drug model?👀reexamining drug policies and so on! Kind regards 👋
@@AdCreative-ik7dgDrug decriminalization is the worst of both worlds. Look at what's been going on here in the US in places like San Francisco and Portland where users are allowed to use and sleep on the streets. Fentanyl is being sold as Heroin or added in with other drugs and is leading to the highest numbers of drug deaths we've seen in the history of the country. Decriminalization does nothing to reduce contamination, cut down on drug-related crime, reduce the power and allure of drug selling organizations, generate tax money from sales to feed back into treatment, or solve the problems of demand. Only legalization will work
Most of the 30k would be contaminated water containing various amounts of Ammonia, caustic soda, Hydrochloric Acid or Phosphoric acid, and formic acid salts. Also there would be a few hundred Kilo of water insoluble organic Tar/resins. The caustic and acids though very damaging short term locally are not persistent in the environment. The few hundred kilo of organic waste as the lady says is an unknown quantity regarding it's carcinogenic properties etc. But still I can't see it existing for long once exposed to the environment and bacteria. If you took all the toxic pollution caused by Dutch legal businesses including farmers and motorists and measured the illegal drug manufacturing pollution in Netherland against it. The drug waste wouldn't even register.
There is no profit in legalising think how many police would be out of work? The Dutch police and farmers are in on it too! To import large amounts of chemicals take incredibly specalist knowledge.
Given 80% of the drugs are sold internationally, your "simple solution" would require worldwide legal changes. Good luck with that. Your idea of "simple" is different to mine. Not to mention, some of these drugs are extremely addictive and dangerous. It is not exactly the same as legalising weed.
Even simpler: Diagnose authors of these ScaryChemical Documentaries with paranoid schizophrenia. All this dangerous scary chemicals man, so much chemicals, they eat chemicals, they dream chemicals........
its like medicine manufacture which produces toxic waste. But since they are legal, the process are controlled. But when you give authority to cartels, well the process is not very safe for environment and people. Its stupid to give this manufacture rights to cartel instead of legal businesses.
There is not much difference between pharmautical production & illegal production of drugs. What they didn´t tell you here that with PMK (BMK) production, mercury is a highly used substance! Illegal dumping of mercury is a huge envirionmental problem.
The toxic waste from drugs like ecstasy, speed or crystal meth | DW Documentary. 2.1.24. They're cheeky effers, really, tolerating such b.s then expecting others to deal with it....
we have the Ohio River here in W.V. cant eat the fish from it and probably shouldn't swim in it but its from "legal" chemical plants and factories. most drugs are safer than eating a fish from that river.
17:42 I'm very confused about the mention of farmers mixing in the toxic waste into manure and putting it on their fields??? how does that not destroy their land or whatever is growing?
Similar to dumping toxic waste into river systems, in small or highly diluted quantities it's not that noticeable. It's still not good for our food and environment but as mentioned in the documentary farmers are also bribed or coerced into doing it.
There are a thousand drug lab videos out there. This is the only one so far that discussed in any detail the waste problem. Not enough effort is spent learning how to identify chemicals and render them safe, or possiby recycle them, This is an entire branch of chemistry that has been neglected through the centuries. This is true for legal manufacturers of chemicals too.
Another wonderful documentary and truthful showed about ecstasy manufacturing by drug cartels... In Germany and the Netherlands 🇳🇱.. and how special police forces and investigation 🔎 teams chasing criminals to stop their activities. Thank you 🙏( DW) documentary channel for sharing
How is it that the German police does not keep record of illegal dump sites? Do they not log each complaint and subsequent files? Are they not entered onto databases? It is a matter of extracting data from the entries by each investigation and compiled into a spreadsheet. Now that AI is available around the world (industrialized), a department should be able to use these tools to answer the question.
Extacy is cheaper than 5 euros for the end consumer meaning the value of that bag is far less than theese nutjobs claim. Also the end consumer buys their stuff with atleast one middlehand between them and the producer who also sells them for profit. So the value is probably 5x less than claimed and to be fair thats counting it very high still. Ridiculous. Takes you 2mins to look up the prices online. Theese investigators are not very talented investigators. Why excaggerate so hugely is it to keep their jobs or what?
That reminds me there was talk of taking sanitation samples unbeknownst to the people. And now that it’s legalized they won’t have any say about it either lol
I don't understand why you don't talk about a solution?? Well, I can tell you that there's only one: Legalize everything. It's not the business of the government anyways to decide which drugs are legal - they all are by default and you cannot change that. But yeah, 100% the governments' fault this is happening.
@@raulcalvo4230Alcohol and Tobacco kill people, and turn them into Junkies. It seems that Legalising narcotics may be the answer to some degree, but need conditions that regulate the outcome.
@@raulcalvo4230the moral is to let the child make the mistakes so that they can learn from their, their, their, their, their mistakes. you are not creating anything other than confusion when you dictate another's action.
I used to live in Berlin Germany and I really love Germany 🇩🇪. If it’s this bad there, Just imagine how bad it is in America now! Please be careful Everyone and stay alert to your environment. We never know what’s in the air that we breathe. Thank you for this Documentary DW!!!💞
That has to be one of the lamest "America Bad!" copes I've ever heard. Drug production is way, way higher in Europe than the US. Maybe you should spend a little less time on the internet...
It'd be really nice if the China and the CCP were much stricter with their distribution of chemicals. Central and South America is another place where many chemicals are exported to for drug production.
What about legal corporations and their toxic waste well recognized by governments and supported by legacy media and their paid sponsorship on all your channels?
This looks excellent - the static and dynamic routes concepts feel really natural after working with networks. We will be trying this out for sure. Look forward to your next video!
Now do an episode about pollution from pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Facts
C8, Hex 6, and Companies Producing and Polluting PFOA Forever Chems are STILL doing this Legally no matter what the Sales of Julia Robert's or Mark Ruffalo's Movie Produce.
True. But the difference is that the government can regulate those entities, whereas laws only apply to gangsters in theory. There's no enforcement mechanism besides violence against a violent gang, whereas at least you can fine, sue, or put regulations on pharma companies.
@@stooge389That’s true but it almost never happens and we see time and time again how corrupt governments like the US’s are. On top of that, since rates of legal prescriptions of depressants and birth control are so high, the by-products from human excretion into the environment are enormously high - and that’s not even from the drug manufacturing processes. The only way to really stop pollution from drugs is for people to choose to not take them; that’s easier said than done though of course.
Straight in
Nestle be like: "So what?"
That one and hundreds upon hundreds of other corporations, baby! ;) Gotta be competitive to con clueless countries for CASH.
@@Novastar.SaberCombat it's not a con when it's a bribe baby!
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It's no different in the United States with "legal" chemical products, a friend of mine many years ago, worked as an analytical chemist testing each batch of product synthesized. If he dropped a 1 ounce glass vile sample that was supposed to be tested for the latest batch analysis, his nose would instantly start bleeding, they would evacuate the lab and hazmat would have to "clean" the lab. He would not have work that next day. This company produces metric tons of this product. When they make mistakes during production, they just dump it down the drain on "accident" because it's cheaper to pay the EPA fine than it is to clean it up. So it basically gets dumped into the water supply chain of this Midwest city. The EPA knows it's not really an "accident". But they rely on the payout. This is true and happens EVERYWHERE! YOU WANNA KNOW WHY YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY ARE GETTING CANCER?!?? HMMM , I WONDER ABOUT THAT
Bleach, or bleach dioxide generators only make it worse if treated wrong ties up contamination into cloeaphenols
It’s the exact same way with chemo drugs. When my grandmother had cancer and was in the hospital, a nurse dropped a vile of what was basically 3% mustard gas. Thats one of the main chemo agents. They had to move EVERYBODY on like half the floor then call in the hazmat team. Who really just use activated charcoal. Which oddly enough is what truly protects you in a protective suit from chemical agents.
Can you say where this was or anything? I’d like to look into it more (or if you know of any videos I could look up)
Dow chemical. Midland county Michigan. I know who your talking about. They destroyed the tittabawassee River as well as poison the water supply and the air.
3M, Bayer & Monsanto be like.. 😂
Yeah, but we can regulate them much better than we can if we just prohibited their product.
This is the beginning of the end, we can still clean the water for ourselves, but not for all living things on the planet. Species die out because of the same problems as humans. Corporations without brutal regulation are pure evil.
@@ryanreedgibsonwe should make drugs legal then.
@@dominikaksiazek7177and what if people need them to life happy lives? ADHD can be severe for example
@@ethanoverwatch407 I know. We've been losing the war on drugs for decades. It's high time we tried a different approach. If all drugs were legally sold in the same places they sell cannabis now, we'd get rid of many problems caused by prohibition.
In many European countries, such as Sweden, the punishment for environmental crime is ridiculously low
Yup. And the way capitalism functions is very, very simple. Paying a fine is "X" dollars, but doing something properly costs like "3x". Therefore... YOU do the bloody math. ;) If you ain't rich, you ain't competitive. If you ain't competitive, YER DONE. Yer done. It's over. Your business is nothing; meaningless. Therefore, you either play the game, play the people, con society... or you GET THE HEYLL OFF THE MERRY-GO-ROUND, suckah! lol
Yep. The so called bad guys win......
In the US they were having problems with people getting sick from living in homes that have been previously been used to cook in. I guess the chemicals can collect into the materials of the homes and if it's not hazmat cleaned or replaced it's very dangerous. People weren't being notified ahead of time that their new homes had been old cook labs and their families were getting very ill.
You don't have to note that you "guess". It's literal science. For a completely different but equally profound comparison, cigarette smoke penetrates and permeates BRICK. Also, it saturates plastics, carpeting, drywall, etc. Most people already know this. Now imagine *FAR* more toxic chemicals melding with the beams, paint, and flooring in your own apartment or home.
Just them smoking makes a deadly time bomb over thier chair you have to wash the ceilings with right stuff or it's mustard gas even tobacco
@@wrongplanet1957what? no. just get rid of carpet and curtains etc, prime and paint walls and ceiling, clean floors, enjoy your house.
You're talking about meth right? The good news is the EPA put regulations in place for cleanup after home laboratories using dangerous chemicals were reported.
The bad news is the regulations are voluntary.
@@dexterrity what? No. Wood is a pourus, concrete is pourus, tile is pourus, drywall is pourus. Safe to do what you said? Maybe. Best practice? Rebuild.
Unless you're talking about tobacco only then yes, sorry.
If you're also talking about meth then I stand by argument
I lived in the Netherlands for four years, when I returned to my country I discovered that I had developed a disease called hairycell leukemia. It's difficult to know the cause of this disease, but I lived close to a paint factory, and the entire environment in the Netherlands is somewhat chemical, due to its legal and illegal industry.. there is the issue of environmental genetic interaction too, but this documentary increases the possible suspicions or hypotheses to explain this disease. I'm in remission anyway, even though it's a chronic illness
Don't go back there! Your getting better because you left. You definitely got it from there
@@Speedster189Wow! I didn’t realize it was so bad over there.
Sorry to read about your illness. I am Belgian and when i travel to Spain by car, on the return way.. a little less than half through France driving north.. you can start smelling an incredibly, faul, industrial smell... i started calling it the central european stench. My sister experiences the same.
She has COPD a lung illness.. she breathes better in Spain. When arriving back in Belgium
she feels tired all the time. Central Europe is a cancerous, industrial stress hole.
I am grateful for what i have but we are far too materialistic... it's sick.
Well, if you are chronically poisoned by the environment....
find JEsus to be saved, repent and believe
Just scrolling through my feed on youtube and watching this finding out this is like almost next to my house lol. Epic to see an international documentary in my local neighbourhood
It’s goes to show never know what going on behind closed doors
Och man als je het eerder wist kon je gewoon bij ze langs voor n paar gram!
@@kwarkposteworst5953 Gram? Kilo's bedoel je
And yet it's proven that the pharmaceutical industry contributes much more to environmental pollution, regulated or not. When the penalties for getting caught improperly disposing of toxic waste are much lower than the cost of properly disposing of the waste the fines are just accepted as the cost of doing business. And the penalties are always lower than the cost. Yes, this is bad, but it's nothing compared to the pollution caused by the world's militaries, agriculture, pharmaceutical production, industrial pollution, etc. If that isn't stopped, stopping all pollution from illicit drug production is completely pointless. It's like the plastic industry telling us to recycle more. It's just a distraction, a scapegoat.
Legalise, tax and regulate ALL illicit drugs.
@nath_goat5597 Both damage caused by drugs and tax taken on sale scale directly with the amount of drugs sold. Having a tax on drug sales ensures that there will always be money available for addiction treatment and harm mitigation which does not depend on how politicians feel that day.
@nath_goat5597 taxes pay for public infrastructure (roads, schools, hospitals etc), and in this case could also pay for education/rehab around said substances.
@nath_goat5597 yes. How do you think roads are built/kept? I think you don't understand.
Didnt a town in canada do that? Isnt it absolute chaos? Drugs ruin lives i dont think that legalizing everything is the solution
An ensure that schools discuss regularly such and Such drugs they're affects dangerous on the individual announces Society and on the biosphere and provide concrete examples: people come in and talk about their addictions
Without a demand for the products there would be no need for the supply. It's a waste of time and money chasing after the producers as there will always be another.
It's a waste of time to chase after adults who choose to use any psychoactive compound.
Humans have seeked a change of perception likely for as long as there has been humans.
Imagine them busting illegal coffee roasting operations.
Safe production + safe access = safe people
right, so lets stop demand.... well give us the plan then! please do elaborate!
@@georgetanasa3843 I suppose they can legalize cocaine and speed … the population will get addicted to drugs, but hey, at least it creates competition for the illegal producers
@@flameoflifecreations8959with drugs, there will ALWAYS be a black market as someone will be cheaper, even weed in NL is expensive compared to the black market which is the same weed
Well, the more difficult and treacherous the manufacture, the higher the likelyhood that someone will take shortcuts - like incorrectly disposing of chemical waste .
But as others have said, disposing of it correctly is expensive, and even legitimate initiatives still dump waste as a cost -cutting measure
It's the nature of the beast, and it unfortunately carries no obvious answer.
Maybe the government could incentivise people to build business' that specialises in disposing waste and can do so at a price that's alluring to these companies (legit or otherwise) maybe even a way to ensure the process is anonymised (if targeting unlegit waste) when receiving the waste but the process of disposal itself is logged to ensure lack of environmental impact. Who knows?
Fantastic job blurring his face and showing his license plate on the golf.
That is not a bulldozer.
That is a front end loader.
😂 Exactly what I said too
That's what you get from this. Them boys making dope would love to hire you. 😂
This will never end. Ever. People want and use these. From addicts/non-addicts, both young/old professionals, stable/unstable, religious/non-religious humans.
It. Will. Always. Be. Around.
Your right man, its sad to say but nothing will stop people from making or doing this shit. Its just human nature
except when these drugs weren't around
Should legalise why can they say what people choose to do w their bodies
Where do you think pharmaceutical companies using the same chemicals dump their chemicals? They dumped it in the rivers, and some still do, up until the 1970s. Now there are special lands to dump on but still the same to the environment. Alternatively they burn them into our atmosphere.
Chemical lab operator spotted 😂
End the war on drugs.
finally someone mentions this if it wasnt for the war on drugs they wouldnt need to dump there waste down the toilet the drugs could be regulated and the waste can be properly disposed of something that wont happen if the failed war on drugs continues to happen
It's almost like a replay of the times people tried to ban the consumption and production of alcohol. Although alcohol is a drug so, I guess that really shouldn't be surprising.
Just legalize and regulate. Best way to stop the cartel.
Are you out of your mind ?
They will never legalize drugs because then the American jails would be empty and they wouldn't need so many people. The drug war can never end there's to much money involved
@@user-rw311 You are right . AI : The American prison population increased with 700% since 1970 . 2,300 million prisoners " . Guards , kitchens , food , beds , doctors , medical rooms enso-on . Big business !
Sure would be great if they just legalized it with regulation because that's the only way to actually stop illicit production and illegal/dangerous dumping of toxic chemicals.
It is legal. Its called stimulant drug. Police is doing a favor to drug companies and psychiatrists. You need to make fancy degree in pseudoscience and wear a beard, then you are called a doctor and can make real money!
Your missing the point, and depending on the country even 'legal' highs are now banned, In no country in the world is ecstacy/meth legal to buy@@michasosnowski5918
Even in the netherlands its technically illegal to possess cannabis but they choose not in inforce it, up to 5grams is legal but growing and selling big quanties is illegal@@michasosnowski5918
@michasosnowski5918 no, recreational drugs clearly aren't legal.
that wont stop the illgal manufacturing of said drugs just the same as how making cannabis legal didnt stop the cartels from growing and smuggling it
maybe we wouldn't have this problem if these substances were legal and quality controlled by the state, on top of providing safe places for people to get high, because let's be real, they do get high all the time
I know it seems counterintuitive but perhaps there should be a no questions asked 24/7 toxic waste depots where these folks or anyone can leave their spent chemicals/chemical reactions. These expensive chemicals could perhaps be recycled, partially recycled or at least properly disposed of. Why? As you can see dumping in the woods, streams, drains etc. has a much more expensive and catastrophic result to people, animals and the environment than proper recycling/disposal. The toxic waste disposers would have to pay a fair disposal fee at the depots. There should also be small taxes assessed for certain know environmentally detrimental and repetitively found chemicals at the sale or importation so before the synthesis. This preemptive tax could also help pay for "clean ups" and depots. The goal would be to get as close to 0 clean ups as possible. These wholesale drug manufacturers need to be more responsible it's their home as well. This might make it easier/cost effective for them to do the right thing.
Oh you sweet summer child.
Insulting comment!@@Hollylivengood
@@kristensorensen2219 Well yes. Can you really not see what the outcome would be? Just stop for a minute, and think about it. Unlike the idea of legalizing all of it, which, even though that sounds bad, would mean that if it all was legal, it would all be regulated. However, if you have a depository for the waste of illegal substances, there would be no regulation of what goes into those substances while enabling them to be made any horrible way.
@@Hollylivengoodanalysis and synthesis. the issue is being able to communicate without fear of arrest. the premise of prohibition is to ignore the feedback in society which governs out of control behavior
Why not just make drugs legal then?
Maby we should legalise production so producers don't need to dump it to avoid getting caught
00:03 Synthetic drug production generates highly toxic waste endangering communities.
03:03 Undercover Dutch police raid a suspected drug lab in a village near Limburg.
06:07 A drug laboratory under construction with hazardous substances and toxic chemicals.
08:53 Netherlands is Europe's biggest center for producing synthetic drugs
11:43 Toxic waste from drug production poses environmental and health risks.
14:22 Drug production in the Netherlands has significant environmental and public health impacts.
16:42 Illegal drug waste disposal poses severe environmental and public health risks.
18:48 Toxic waste from drug production poses serious dangers
21:12 Drug waste contains carcinogenic substances with unknown risks to humans and nature.
23:31 Customs officers struggle to detect drug precursor chemicals
25:59 Public help in detecting drug laboratories to disrupt drug cartels
Thanks
Great documentary. Vice showed something similar in Columbia at a cocaine refining facility in the jungle. It seems to me that legalizing and regulating these industries is the way to go. The demand is strong, the willingness to produce it is there, why not let them produce it above board and test for quality control and environmental regulations as well. Take the $ out of the cartel hands and put it into the hands of the chemists who are not dumping sulfuric acid in the water.
It cannot be think how many jobs would be lost such as judges, prisons, police officers. Keeping illegal drugs illegal is a highly profitable business on both sides. The police are the ones that control the drugs trade.
Drugs aren't the only crime, and judges and police officers could spend their time on other things.@@Westhamsterdam
Clown…….
@@Westhamsterdamlook around now……legalizing drugs would definitely thin out the heard real quick….
Ok, I’m in!
"Assaults are increasing! Guess we should legalize assault since criminals will do it anyway."
See how stupid your argument is?
legalise, and then you wont have this problem....
The chemicals always seem to be in these containers. Can't they incorporate a tracing solution? Then the government can bill the manufacturer for the clean up costs. Watch how quickly the manufacturers become more responsible about who they sell them to.
Most of the chemicals as mentioned in the documentary come from China. Since we saw the customs team investigating the shipping container, we can also conclude that the chemicals come in illicitly. These factors in mind, I do not believe that your proposal would have much effect, as even if the Netherlands were able to get such a system up and running on a global scale, I highly doubt that the trace chemicals would be added to the goods slated for smuggling.
You want to trace millions out of billions of plastic jugs produced from thousands of factories across tens of countries?
@@GoingtoHecq yes, they are trying to do the same with tires. It really isn't as difficult as it sounds.
The problem is the products are mostly coming from clandestine labs that don't operate under regulations.
People will just make and supply their own barrels that dont have tracking.
The drug trade doesnt run on legitimate paper trades. Almost EVERYTHING is obtained illegally including all of the lab equipment, chemicals and the barrels they come in. Everything.
Just tracking the barrels creates a colossal MOUNTAIN of work for someone to ultimately achieve almost nothing.
As a dutch citizen I cannot laugh harder about the incorrect statements , ideas and apparently crazy street prices we have. Imagine we could sell XTC for 5 a pill damn.
More like 20? At least that’s the price here in Washington.
Obviously legalizing and regulating proper drug laboratories is the answer. Proper manufactuers could make ecstasy pills for more like $.20 than the cost of a $20 pill on the street which isn't even guaranteed to be safe.
Legalizing will make them like big pharma. Several years later people will complain that they're too huge. The small players are left behind. Bla bla bla, people never stop complaining.
@@bltzcstrnx yeah, people will never stop complaining, but I would argue that the better of the options is legalization with reasonable regulations that allow over-the-counter use. I think 90% of the problems with pharmaceuticals, at least in the US, is that it's nearly impossible to know how much they will cost, let alone does anyone care because it's someone else paying the bill 90% of the time whether that be the government or health insurance. Also, why exactly do we need pharmacies for 80% of drugs? I should be able to buy drugs I know I need without my doctor explicitly approving it each and every month in addition to an overeducated guy in a white coat who counts pills for a living barring me from simply buying the drugs in a straightforward manner just like I can with NyQuil, Tylenol, Advil, Melatonin, Unisom, etc? It's clearly the medical lobby getting the government to force people to use the services of pharmacists (who in reality should only be needed in rare circumstances) and to use doctors more frequently than necessary
Hey DW, pls do a report on chemical factories in Europe that discharge toxic chemicals into the air? I'm not a supporter of drug production but a media company should not just create sensational material without presenting the whole picture.
What’s so sensational about it?
Shouldn’t antidepressants like ecstasy be manufactured at scale legally so that there’s no need for black markets? Especially since it’s significantly less harmful compared to substances like alcohol and tobacco. Either way, seems like people will take them regardless, it’s a just a lot safer if it’s not run by gangs.
There'll always be a black market for any substance that's valuable. Just look at America with its legal cannabis market. There's still a striving demand for it on the black market. Same with pharmaceuticals in the US. Even with a tightly regulated pharma market there's still a huge demand for pharmaceuticals from outside the US like Mexico, Canada, India, and China. The reason why these underground markets strive is because they are able to provide products with less regulation.
This is exactly why we need legalization
if you smell anise coming from someone's kitchen, it could be ecstasy and not just pastries! very helpful hint...
Where I used to live (no names!), the fire dept responded to a call on a fire in a meth lab right on the bay, half a mile from downtown. They were about to use water (well, that's what you do with a fire, right?) when somebody, fortunately, discovered a 55 gallon steel drum full of metallic sodium and stopped the FD from causing an explosion that would have required a new map of the city to be drawn! Talk about toxic waste! This was an highly explosive _ingredient_!
If governments legalised drugs, producers would be able to dispose of waste in an environmentally friendly manner.
LEGALISE THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This way you'll be able to control the production of it, receive tax money to the budget, dose safely and recycle the waste!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah sure, legalize Meth and end up like The US state of Oregon
@@hashxzprobably not meth, but mdma and speed can be legalised
Absolutely not! Pills and powder will only ruin lives!
@@TiborRoussouas a chemist you should seriously do your homework.
@@TiborRoussou They have ALREADY ruined your lives! That's what I'm saying: the government MUST take control by legalising all of these substances to be able to control their production, monitor ingredients and restrict their sales to save many many lives! The revenue must go to govenrment, not criminals and the revenue and tax money off the sales must be used to build rehabilitation centres, not enrich violet criminal gangs!!!
the farmers need to test their groundwater before using it.
And if the groundwater is completely polluted and toxic, then what? 🧐
@@TheStockwell That's why they don't want to know. Testing is the lottery to financial suicide.
Oh shut up/
@@TheStockwellthen the farm condemned
Carbohydrates are not considered a basic building block of life. The basic building blocks of life are typically nucleic acids (DNA and RNA), proteins, and lipids. However, carbohydrates are essential biomolecules that play a crucial role in various biological processes. They serve as a major source of energy, provide structural support in cells, and are involved in cell signaling and communication. Carbohydrates are an important component of many biological molecules, but they are not considered the fundamental building blocks of life.
You can actually make MDMA from vanillin, its cleaner :D
You can also use piperine from black pepper.
Both of which end up in piperonal as the precursor, and from there it's only a few steps.
I know you can start with polystyrene, because styrofoam is so plentiful its basically free.... then depolymerize that into styrene and, and go to nitrostyrene from there... which is like a universal precursor to all phenethylamines and amphetamines.
But that just seems quite toxic xD
(I do not condone the use or manufacture of illegal drugs... i am simply a person who loves knowledge :D)
Chemadelic viewer spotted
Or you can just dont make that trash and grow some weed. It doesnt need chemicals
@@henkstoomflat8840 stole my words you can say what you want about drug users but stoners are pretty much immune to criticism people spend just as much on worthless things they don't need and i know multiple stoners in their late 80's
23:06 This is very short sighted. Banning the precursors will only lead to more steps, because now thr criminals need to synthesize the precursors as well. With each step in the process there is more chemical waste that is produced.
An actual long-term solution would be to legalise and heavily regulate the production of these substances. Then it's no longer gangs that procude them but companies that should be able to be held responsible
All of those acids are used in other things, phosphoric acid in fact is used in soda like Pepsi and Cola
if it wasnt for the war on drugs they wouldnt need to dump there waste down the toilet the drugs could be regulated and the waste can be properly disposed of something that wont happen if the failed war on drugs continues to happen
We have to legalise all drugs.
Superheating, vaporizing and cumbusting with a catalytic converter works well. Pure oxygen (not O²) and methane or ammonia added to the process, will render everything into CO² and nitrogen...mostly.
another reason to end the drug war
This makes its own argument for legalizing and control.
It bothers me that any of this happens. All manufacturers need to be held accountable
illegal drug producers need to be held accountable Hmmm
How you enjoying those painkillers, antacids, lotions, cosmetics, soaps, detergents, cleaning products, clothes, phones, etc.
You would not be bothered if you tried there product 😂
You cannot regulate manufacture if you don't legalise it! If I were an illicit drug chemist, should I take all of the hazardous waste to a proper disposal site? That would be a HUGE red flag! I would be STRONGLY disincentivized, because then the police would know what I was doing, and I'd be arrested and stripped of my freedom!
And pharmaceutical giant companies don't leave environment footprint at all..???
I'm sure it's done with oversight and regulation...that why it's important to have legal, regulated industry
@@AquaticGems That's not true a lot of companies has poisoned the entire world with compound that don't break down at all. Towns and rivers there are a lot of these accidents. Many cases companies would just release all sorts of chemicals in local rivers.
Thanks DW for the investigation ,most of ours people have been affected by some factories waste. not only for drugs all other chemicals in different industries , Dw continues tell us the truth ,we need you to come in Africa coz alot of people are being affected .
Alot of Chinese have been open factors in rural Africa ,
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
The irony is immense, especially when there’s kids at music, festivals, and raves, who take drugs and claim to care about the environment, but have no knowledge or either they don’t care about the toxic byproducts that are created in the manufacturing of the drugs that they consume so ignorantly
Sulfuric acids, and hydrocarbons. All the chems can be reclaimed, it's probably just more work to recycle then to just dump and buy fresh.
tried and true issues from chemical education. size matters
I think that the system in Portugal is effective regarding the subject of the documentary.Thanks for sharing, very interesting 👍
What system? I would like to understand. Personally, I believe prohibition is what leads to most of these negative consequences.
@@ryanreedgibson Well, Portugal became a model for progressive jurisdictions around the world embracing drug decriminalization...but maybe ..is it time to reconsider this country’s globally hailed drug model?👀reexamining drug policies and so on! Kind regards 👋
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
@@ryanreedgibsonwhat about the cancer from production
@@AdCreative-ik7dgDrug decriminalization is the worst of both worlds. Look at what's been going on here in the US in places like San Francisco and Portland where users are allowed to use and sleep on the streets. Fentanyl is being sold as Heroin or added in with other drugs and is leading to the highest numbers of drug deaths we've seen in the history of the country. Decriminalization does nothing to reduce contamination, cut down on drug-related crime, reduce the power and allure of drug selling organizations, generate tax money from sales to feed back into treatment, or solve the problems of demand.
Only legalization will work
First times in your documentaries the subtitles have a lot of mistakes.
First 1,000 kilos of product would produce 30k kilos of toxic waste. Can you explain what the waste products are?
Most of the 30k would be contaminated water containing various amounts of Ammonia, caustic soda, Hydrochloric Acid or Phosphoric acid, and formic acid salts. Also there would be a few hundred Kilo of water insoluble organic Tar/resins. The caustic and acids though very damaging short term locally are not persistent in the environment. The few hundred kilo of organic waste as the lady says is an unknown quantity regarding it's carcinogenic properties etc. But still I can't see it existing for long once exposed to the environment and bacteria. If you took all the toxic pollution caused by Dutch legal businesses including farmers and motorists and measured the illegal drug manufacturing pollution in Netherland against it. The drug waste wouldn't even register.
products like methanol and acids
People should get a legal dump site so the problem can be fixed
To stop this, the only way is to legalise, legalise, legalise!
There is no profit in legalising think how many police would be out of work? The Dutch police and farmers are in on it too! To import large amounts of chemicals take incredibly specalist knowledge.
"Driven by greed..." 😂😂
Thank you War on Drugs for creating an environmental problem over something that should be legal.
The solution is rather obvious; a well-regulated legal market.
Another reason to make it all legal and "regulated"
Sorry for drug users. How can someone find pleasure taking in toxic chemicals??????
Very small amounts of various toxins cause the brain to experience enjoyment on a level 10,000 times greater than skydiving - that's how.
we really love your documentary and we will support your work. Happy New Year everyone
If it was legalized it can be regulated better.
simple solution make it legal and regulate it and tax it for the clean up cost of the cleaner process after regulation
Great on paper, unfortunately in reality that tax money is going to illicit affairs 🥲😂🥲🥲☹️
then nobody wants it anymore
I can't believe 9 people upvoted this comment.
Given 80% of the drugs are sold internationally, your "simple solution" would require worldwide legal changes. Good luck with that. Your idea of "simple" is different to mine.
Not to mention, some of these drugs are extremely addictive and dangerous. It is not exactly the same as legalising weed.
Even simpler: Diagnose authors of these ScaryChemical Documentaries with paranoid schizophrenia. All this dangerous scary chemicals man, so much chemicals, they eat chemicals, they dream chemicals........
Thanks for posting
Ethicals reasons are why I did stop taking illegal drugs. The social cost of those organizations are insane.
This is why all drugs should be leagal
Just legalise it
Beringen is in Belgium not the Netherlands. Please correct it
G E K O L O N I S E E R D
Legalise all drugs and you’ll have more control over waste and production
its like medicine manufacture which produces toxic waste. But since they are legal, the process are controlled. But when you give authority to cartels, well the process is not very safe for environment and people. Its stupid to give this manufacture rights to cartel instead of legal businesses.
There is not much difference between pharmautical production & illegal production of drugs. What they didn´t tell you here that with PMK (BMK) production, mercury is a highly used substance! Illegal dumping of mercury is a huge envirionmental problem.
Thank you for keeping us informed!
The toxic waste from drugs like ecstasy, speed or crystal meth | DW Documentary. 2.1.24. They're cheeky effers, really, tolerating such b.s then expecting others to deal with it....
we have the Ohio River here in W.V. cant eat the fish from it and probably shouldn't swim in it but its from "legal" chemical plants and factories. most drugs are safer than eating a fish from that river.
I am not even a chemist.. But 30 times the waste versus the amount of finisjed product.. Really?
17:42 I'm very confused about the mention of farmers mixing in the toxic waste into manure and putting it on their fields??? how does that not destroy their land or whatever is growing?
Similar to dumping toxic waste into river systems, in small or highly diluted quantities it's not that noticeable. It's still not good for our food and environment but as mentioned in the documentary farmers are also bribed or coerced into doing it.
There are a thousand drug lab videos out there. This is the only one so far that discussed in any detail the waste problem. Not enough effort is spent learning how to identify chemicals and render them safe, or possiby recycle them, This is an entire branch of chemistry that has been neglected through the centuries. This is true for legal manufacturers of chemicals too.
Another wonderful documentary and truthful showed about ecstasy manufacturing by drug cartels... In Germany and the Netherlands 🇳🇱.. and how special police forces and investigation 🔎 teams chasing criminals to stop their activities. Thank you 🙏( DW) documentary channel for sharing
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@@DWDocumentaryI have a picture of a ghost on a tv.
Do you really think that light blur will hide his identity? The same algorithm used to blur that can be reversed.
Lol I was thinking the same. You can see face features of him even when blurred.
Maybe they should legalize those drugs recreationally then it would be regulated and taxed.
How is it that the German police does not keep record of illegal dump sites? Do they not log each complaint and subsequent files? Are they not entered onto databases? It is a matter of extracting data from the entries by each investigation and compiled into a spreadsheet. Now that AI is available around the world (industrialized), a department should be able to use these tools to answer the question.
Extacy is cheaper than 5 euros for the end consumer meaning the value of that bag is far less than theese nutjobs claim. Also the end consumer buys their stuff with atleast one middlehand between them and the producer who also sells them for profit. So the value is probably 5x less than claimed and to be fair thats counting it very high still. Ridiculous. Takes you 2mins to look up the prices online. Theese investigators are not very talented investigators. Why excaggerate so hugely is it to keep their jobs or what?
That reminds me there was talk of taking sanitation samples unbeknownst to the people. And now that it’s legalized they won’t have any say about it either lol
Just one more argument for legalisation.
Thr drug business is trillions of dollars, the court system, lawyers, judges, cops, dea, the list is endless
I don't understand why you don't talk about a solution?? Well, I can tell you that there's only one: Legalize everything. It's not the business of the government anyways to decide which drugs are legal - they all are by default and you cannot change that. But yeah, 100% the governments' fault this is happening.
Legalizing is not a solution. More importantly it is immoral to legalize substances that kill the consumers or convert them into junkies.
@@raulcalvo4230 Do you find it immoral that we are selling tobacco and alcohol at the moment?
The solution is that no one should use drugs😂
@@raulcalvo4230Alcohol and Tobacco kill people, and turn them into Junkies.
It seems that Legalising narcotics may be the answer to some degree, but need conditions that regulate the outcome.
@@raulcalvo4230the moral is to let the child make the mistakes so that they can learn from their, their, their, their, their mistakes. you are not creating anything other than confusion when you dictate another's action.
Another strong argument for regulated supply....
So only 3m, DuPont and a like can pollute and dump chemicals into the ground?
I’m trying to get into drug manufacturing. Good info thanks
Now do a video about the impacts of gold mining around the world.
Oh no look at all those green house gases. Nearly as much as all those WEF private planes. It really should be illegal.
For every pound of methamphetamine produced there is a pound of biohazard waste produced also.
I used to live in Berlin Germany and I really love Germany 🇩🇪. If it’s this bad there, Just imagine how bad it is in America now! Please be careful Everyone and stay alert to your environment. We never know what’s in the air that we breathe. Thank you for this Documentary DW!!!💞
Usa is fentanyl, if they sniff speed or meth is from the cartels or from the dutch, all the xtc around the world is made here in the netherlands
That has to be one of the lamest "America Bad!" copes I've ever heard. Drug production is way, way higher in Europe than the US. Maybe you should spend a little less time on the internet...
To me, this is much scarier and dangerous than global warming.
They forgot to tell you about mercury (a crucial element) needed to produce BMK/PMK. This was just a vague summary!
These are somewhat localized, global warming is global.
@@bltzcstrnx "somewhat localized", yes. But pretty much all around the world. Not many places were illustrated in this one video.
What about the global brand companies pollution issues?
Dummies behind their desks will never understand, that the solution is not prohibition, but rather taxation.
Nice doc.
Speed and crystal meth? I didn’t know they were different
It'd be really nice if the China and the CCP were much stricter with their distribution of chemicals. Central and South America is another place where many chemicals are exported to for drug production.
You better call Saul....
Sadly we've just seen a horrible example of what the guy says at 08:55 in Rotterdam
They should be giving it to me not throw it away 😂
What about legal corporations and their toxic waste well recognized by governments and supported by legacy media and their paid sponsorship on all your channels?
This looks excellent - the static and dynamic routes concepts feel really natural after working with networks.
We will be trying this out for sure. Look forward to your next video!
Focus on where the chemicals are coming from to stop it from the source!