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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Shipwreck.
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The Supreme Court of Bangladesh has dramatically raised environmental standards for "shipbreaking," the industry in which the outmoded vessels of the industrial world are sent to Bangladesh (and India and Pakistan) for dismantling and recycling -- under the most dangerous circumstances imaginable.
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As does Edward Burtynsky's work documenting the impact of oil throughout the globe, from sweeping landscapes of oil fields in Azerbaijan, Bakersfield, Canada to trucker jamborees, aerial views of gnarled freeway over and underpasses and smoldering shipbreaking in Bangladesh.
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Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images A workers watched the demolition of ships to recycle the valuable steel at a shipbreaking yard in Jakarta Tuesday.
Asia in Photos 2010
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Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images A workers watched the demolition of ships to recycle the valuable steel at a shipbreaking yard in Jakarta Tuesday.
Asia in Photos 2010
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Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images A workers watched the demolition of ships to recycle the valuable steel at a shipbreaking yard in Jakarta Tuesday.
Asia in Photos 2010
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Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images A workers watched the demolition of ships to recycle the valuable steel at a shipbreaking yard in Jakarta Tuesday.
Asia in Photos 2010
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Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images A workers watched the demolition of ships to recycle the valuable steel at a shipbreaking yard in Jakarta Tuesday.
Asia in Photos 2010
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Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images A workers watched the demolition of ships to recycle the valuable steel at a shipbreaking yard in Jakarta Tuesday.
Asia in Photos 2010
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A 64-nation accord signed in Hong Kong in May 2009 will require companies to produce toxic inventories, but will not fundamentally change the shipbreaking workers 'operations.
Sandy Tolan: Babu's Story: A Child Worker In The Shipyards Of Bangladesh 2009
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For Hasan and her fellow activists, the goal is not to destroy the shipbreaking industry, but to bring it under stricter labor and environmental controls.
Sandy Tolan: Babu's Story: A Child Worker In The Shipyards Of Bangladesh 2009
bilby commented on the word shipbreaking
"Management at the Kabir Shipbreaking Yard ordered the 'fitter' men, who work at the bottom of the ship, to break up asbestos, unbolt and take apart dozens of pipelines and gas and oil tanks. The work is dangerous, since residual gas and oil leak and form pools on the floor, and pockets of gas vapors build up."
- Shipyard Murder, nlcnet.org, 22 Sep 2009.
October 21, 2009