The most amazing waste storage

Frankly, amazed that this place actually exist. But ... humanity gradually accumulates garbage. Although the authors of the cartoon fantasy "Valley" of how our planet because it has turned into a huge dump, have so far remained fiction, trash on the ground is getting bigger.

But trash debris strife. And if the pile household waste - it is commonplace, the specialized store some things hard to believe. However, they do exist.

The Great American tire dumps

In the 1950s, some American named Ed Philbin decided that sooner or later the old tires will cost serious money - and began to collect them. For about 30 years, he has collected about 42 million old tires - all rolled in one big pile close to the highway №5 in California and did not particularly worried - even the local authorities.

At the end of 1980 whether Philbin tired of waiting, or realized that the "black gold" - this is not about old tires, and sold his 42 million tires (but not land) some private companies that have built a number of small business to transform the old rubber into new energy. This is where the project and attracted the attention of the authorities - they did not like that the plant has been actively burn rubber, bloating (literally) the sky. Their concern is also caused by the fact that the tire dump was not ordered, and any fire on it threatens to turn into serious problems.

And so it happened - at the end of 1989, the landfill was struck by lightning, and started a fire. They burned tires per month, and no one with them could not help it - the fire simply could not cope with fire. In the end, so that millions of tires burned and turned into energy. Philbin had ventured to renew reception of old tires, but officials quickly stopped him these proclivities, it seized of several lawsuits.

Chernobyl. Sump infected machines

Everyone knows about the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, many know what efforts were made to eliminate the consequences of, and how many human and other resources involved. But few of us know about what happened to the equipment by means of which struggled with the effects of the disaster.

Part of it is the most contaminated, or buried in cemeteries or even laid the foundation of the sarcophagus, which is covered by the affected part of the plant.

However, most of the cars and helicopters, until recently, stood (standing for decades!) In a special settler near the Ukrainian village Rassokha.

The cemetery in the United States aircraft

Cemetery military and civil aircraft in Arizona (Tucson, air base Davis-Monthan Air Force Base) claims to be the largest aircraft of the necropolis in the world. With an area of ​​over 6,500 hectares, and the area is slowly destroyed 40 different vehicles for space purposes, and more than 4,000 aircraft.

It appeared immediately after the Second World War, as a kind of museum storage. Location chosen for the dry climate and firm ground, allows you to store aircraft on unprepared sites. According to experts, the total cost of all the objects in Arizona cemetery, estimated at about $ 35 billion.

By the way, there were shooting the film "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen."

Giant timber deposits in Sweden

Hurricane Gudrun (Erwin), which hit northern Europe in January 2005, caused a disaster in Sweden and Denmark - on these countries the brunt of the disaster. Unusual consequence of this hurricane was the creation of the world's largest repository of timber felled.

Neat Swedes carefully collected most of the storm collapsed the trees in and around the city created a huge warehouse Byuholm kilometer long, consisting of several rows of stacked logs. The total amount of collected wood on it "at the peak" is estimated at 75 million cubic meters. Disposal of trees began in 2008 and is not finished yet.

Glass Beach - the largest repository of small glass pieces

Many of us kids were hunting on the beaches on the little colored pieces of glass - pieces of colored glass, which the sea and time made smooth, rounded and safe. However, in the US there is a place where these glass pieces - shaft. The name of this beach in Northern California Sea Glass Beach, and it is located close to Fort Bragg.

Of course, there were pieces of glass on the beach for a reason. The fact that this is a rocky ocean coast in the middle of the XX century was actively used as a dump. What else to do it - to swim out there uncomfortable, solid stones. A trash to do something with it was necessary. And the locals with this dump especially not stand on ceremony and simply from time to time set fire to it in order to make room for the new collection. It is understood that the glass lights are not very willing, so that very soon the beach was covered with broken glass, which is under the influence of waves was small colored bits of glass.

At one point, the authorities have covered landfill, the remaining debris or washed into the ocean, or pilfered poultry and glass ... glass left. Today, there you can walk barefoot - and to collect small pieces of glass.

Cemetery of giant ships

Chittagong - the second largest city of Bangladesh and one of the largest ports of the country and Southeast Asia. And there is the famous cemetery of the giant ship, which is annually replenished with dozens of new "guests" in the vicinity, just abandoned by their owners.

Shipowners good - they do not have to pay for the disposal of end-of-its ships. But for local residents, these vessels are an inexhaustible source of income - to drag them all that is possible and what is not, and including elements of the sheathing.

This business is extremely dangerous - annually in a landfill accident killed dozens of people, but who will stop this risk, when you can earn? The authorities pretend that they do not like this dump, but for a bribe on the bank, and to this day you can leave literally any vehicle in any condition.