Environmental Cleanup Starts Amid Haiti Rubble

From Discovery News:

Experts have started assessing how to deal with the masses of rubble and hazardous waste left in the wake of the Haiti quake.

Just a week after Haiti's catastrophic magnitude 7.0 earthquake, getting aid to victims remains a top priority, but experts are also now starting to assess how to coordinate the sorting and disposing of building rubble.

So far, no large industrial spills have been found. The biggest environmental issue, according to the United Nations Environment Program, is dealing with all of the building waste generated by the earthquake, which destroyed at least 40-50 percent of the buildings in the capital, Port-au-Prince, and devastated other towns in the area.

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