tuuwi: Green Warriors: The Toxic Legacy of Warfare (OV)

Abschluss der Umweltfilmreihe in Kooperation mit der TU Umweltinitiative (tuuwi). Eintritt frei!

 

Up until the 2000s, France submerged, buried or destroyed thousands of tonnes of ammunition across a number of territories and deep in lakes and seas. Long forgotten, these rubbish heaps now release pollution that is toxic, carcinogenic, or likely to cause genetic malformations.

 

For a year, with the help of French and German scientists, the Green Warriors team investigated the consequences of these buried weapons. In the Grand-Est and Hauts-de-France regions, journalists took twenty samples of tap water from areas surrounding old storage and destruction sites, or military sites still in operation. Seventeen of them contained explosive residues, two of them at levels exceeding the US health agency’s recommendations for RDX (an explosive compound also known as cyclonite) – the only existing standard for explosives in drinking water.