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The Great Pyramid of Giza, the Great Wall of China, the Taj
Mahal, Chichen Itza, the Colosseum -- all examples of human engineering
at its greatest that have received the designation of "wonder of the
world," depending on whose list you follow.<br />
But just as the awe-inspiring product of our industriousness can
live through the ages, so too can the often disgusting byproducts of
our civilization cause lasting damage to the environment. The discovery
of a 15-ton blob of congealed fat in a London sewer, dubbed Fatberg,
shows the output of the waste habits of a single community.<br />
And Fatberg doesn't even compare to these seven dirtiest, man-made wonders of the world.<br />
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Think of a toilet drain that never clears, but instead continues
to pull in more and more waste, and you'll have an idea of the problem
that is the <a href="http://news.discovery.com/earth/global-warming/ocean-garbage-patch-exaggerated-110112.htm">Great Ocean Garbage Patch</a>.<br />
Although often erroneously reported as being a single mass twice
the size of Texas, the Great Ocean Garbage Patch is really the
accumulation over two separate regions that have formed a soup of
confetti-like bits of plastic, <a href="http://news.discovery.com/earth/oceans/pacific-ocean-plastic-increase-120509.htm">about 13,000 pieces per square kilometer</a>, with the occasional large item floating beneath the surface.<br />
The Great Ocean Garbage Patch, <a href="http://news.discovery.com/earth/oceans/atlantic-garbage-patch.htm">and others like it</a>,
are a threat to both marine and avian wildlife, with the plastics
releasing chemicals into the water and they break down, as well as
ending up in the food chain. So we're basically eating our own trash.<br />
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<a href="http://news.discovery.com/earth/videos/earth-whats-an-ocean-garbage-patch.htm">WATCH VIDEO: What's an Ocean Garbage Patch?</a></h2>
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<a href="http://news.discovery.com/earth/oceans/life-in-the-garbage-patch-on-the-ocean-floor-pictures-130607.htm">PHOTOS: Life on the Ocean Floor Garbage Patch</a></h2>
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The Jiapingtang River outside Shanghai, China, this year earned a
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on the People's Republic's agriculture industry.<br />
In April, some 16,000 rotting pig carcasses had to be removed
from the Jiapingtang, a tributary of the Huangpu River that supplies
drinking water to over 23 million people, <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/clean-water/16000-dead-pigs-found-chinese-river-threatening-shanghais-water-supply.html">as TreeHugger reported</a>. Shortly after the pigs were fished out of the water, around 1,000 dead ducks soon surfaced, which had to be removed.<br />
The mass animal deaths have taken a toll on the Jiapingtang,
with reports that the water has turned an inky black, holds a thin layer
of slimy algae on its surface and smells like a giant, backed-up drain.<br />
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<a href="http://news.discovery.com/earth/how-putrefying-pigs-pollute-water-130314.htm">ANALYSIS: Dead Pigs? Not a Big Deal in Shanghai River</a></h2>
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A drone hobbyist based out of Dallas found an equally grisly river outside of a meatpacking plant in 2012.<br />
From the air, the pilot photographed a large, oozing river of
blood originating from the plant and pouring into the Trinity River, a
violation of the law for which the plant's operators, Columbia Packing
Co., Inc., were investigated by authorities, <a href="http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2012/01/20/dallas-plant-investigated-for-dumping-pig-blood-into-trinity-river/">as CBS Dallas/Fort Worth reported at the time</a>.<br />
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Being the largest chemical weapons site in Russian history isn't
exactly a source of pride for the locals of Dzerzhinsk, Russia, who
must cope with the legacy of improperly disposed chemical waste.<br />
Home to about 300,000 people, Dzerzhinsk between 1930 and 1998
has had 300,000 tons of toxic waste dumped within its borders, with some
pollutants reaching levels 17 million times what is considered the safe
limits of exposure, <a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1661031_1661028_1661021,00.html">according to TIME</a>.</div>
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The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in April 2010 showed how much
damage a single, massive crude oil leak can do to the environment. The
Niger Delta in Africa, on the other hand, is a demonstration of the
havoc thousands of small oil spills can wreak on the landscape.<br />
More than 6,800 oil spills have been recorded in the region,
totaling anywhere from 9 million to 13 million barrels lost over the 50
years since oil drilling began in Nigeria, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/06/29/nigeria.oil/index.html">as reported by CNN</a>.
Home to 31 million people, the majority of whom depend on the land for
their livelihoods, the 700,000-square-kilometer Niger Delta is one of
the most largest and more vital wetlands in the world.<br />
Cleaning up the contamination caused by the oil industry could
take up to 30 years with a $1 billion downpayment needed for the first
five years, <a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=39232&Cr=pollutio#.UgMa4ZJQHck">according to the United Nations</a>.<br />
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For decades, Lake Karachai in Russia's Chelyabinsk region was a
dumping ground for nuclear waste by the Soviet Union. The lake, thought
to be one of the most polluted sites on Earth, is so toxic that spending
just a single hour standing on the shoreline is more than enough time
to receive a lethal dose of radiation, according to measurements taken
in 1990.<br />
Thousands of concrete blocks have since been dumped into the
lake to prevent radioactive sediment from shifting, but the lake and the
surrounding area will continue to be toxic of hundreds of years.<br />
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<a href="http://news.discovery.com/earth/global-warming/americas-top-10-air-polluters-130625.htm">SEE ALSO: America's Top 10 Climate Change Polluters</a></h2>
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Given the superlative "the world's most polluted city" more than
once over the years, Linfen, China, was once renowned for its clean
spring water and fertile farmland in the 1980s, <a href="http://world.time.com/2013/03/12/china-a-river-of-pigs-and-5-other-environmental-nightmares/slide/linfen/">according to TIME</a>.
But a booming coal industry that produced power plants, as well as
legal and illegal mines, led to severe air and water quality concerns
that transformed what was once a floral city into an ashy landscape.<br />
Efforts to turn around what has been dubbed <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9631216/Linfen-how-Chinas-Chernobyl-turned-the-corner.html">China's Chernobyl</a>
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