this is the kind of pictures you get when you google "Copsa Mica":
wikipedia says:
"The town is best known for its status (in the
1990s) as one of the most
polluted in Europe. This was due to the emissions of two factories in the area:
- One, open from 1936 to 1993, produced carbon black for dyes; its emissions permeated the area for nearly sixty years, leaving soot on homes, trees, animals, and everything else in the area. The stain from these decades of deposits are still visible.
- The other source of the pollution, less visible but with even more serious effects to the health of the town's residents, was Sometra, a smelter whose emissions have contributed to significantly higher incidence of lung disease and impotence, along with a life expectancy nine years below Romania's average."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copsa_Mica
i wonder if someone actually won that trip.