Industrial accident
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Industrial accident

by Konstantinos Kourtidis, Demokritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece

Burning of the facilities of an industry producing food packaging material. Many hundred tonnes of PET and polypropylene as well as around 1 tn of PVC was burned. In the photo, the smoke from the fire which is burning for around 4 hours. It continued burning for several hours.