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Extract from the Copsa Mica Travel Guides:
Filthy
COPSA MICA
(Kleinkopisch), 13km west of Medias, is probably Romania's most polluted town and if you're unlucky with connections you may have to change trains for Sibiu here rather than in Medias. A plant producing carbon black (for dyes) was established here in 1936 and consistently left everything - plants, laundry, people - covered in soot until it was finally closed in 1993; white snow was seen in 1994 for the first time in sixty years. The other industrial plant here, the SOMETRA lead smelter to the west, is more deadly; for thirty years it has been spraying a cocktail of twenty heavy metals over the surrounding area (and up...
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