A Michael, de 48 años, le fue diagnosticada una neumonía grave en noviembre y recibió tratamiento en la capital austríaca.
Se vio obligado a posponer su gira y pasar varias semanas en el hospital y su estado era “delicado”.
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The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) August 29, 2002 Byline: David Wecker Louise Danzl shudders at the memory.
There she was waiting for the light to change at Fifth and Garrard in Covington.
The driver of the car next to her opened his door, leaned out and dumped his ashtray.
‘Right there on the street!’ Louise says.
Mary Shinkle cringes.
‘A cigarette butt takes seven years to break down,’ she says.
‘A good rain comes along, and those butts are washed into the storm sewer, down into the river. Eventually, those carcinogens end up in someone’s glass of water.’ Louise is a senior health planner of the Northern Kentucky Health Department, which covers Campbell, Kenton, Boone and Grant counties. Mary is Boone County’s solid waste coordinator. They’re both part of something called the Northern Kentucky Household Hazardous Waste Action Coalition, which is all about getting people to dispose properly of common household poisons so they don’t end up in your glass of water.
The gross fact is, no one knows how many thousands of people are pouring one kind of poison or another into the environment every day just to get it to go away.
For example, Mary has headed an event called River Sweep in Boone County for the past 10 years. It involves lining up 100 volunteers, fitting them with rubber gloves and heavy work gloves on top of that. Then they all head down to the Ohio River to pick up whatever nature hasn’t deposited in the past year. see here how to get rid of pimples overnight
In one day a little more than a month ago, Mary’s River Sweep crew filled four 40-yard dumpsters and four tandem-axle dump trucks.
‘The most distressing thing was that we collected an exorbitant number of those plastic oil jugs – capped up and filled with nasty black used motor oil,’ Mary says.
‘One gallon of motor oil can contaminate a million gallons of water. What are people thinking? ‘It’s OK – it’s in plastic’?
‘We also collected plenty of oil jugs that were punctured or cracked open.’ Mary’s volunteers also came across a stash of used hypodermic needles tangled up in river debris.
‘It makes you wonder what’s on the bottom,’ Mary says.
There was a time, Louise says, when Northern Kentucky had a certain image:
‘It used to be, the people in the outlying areas would haul their trash to the back forty and dump it. And it would sit there and gradually leech into the soil and down into the water table.
‘The bigger problem now is with people in the cities and suburbs -these are supposedly educated people – going out at night when they think no one is looking and dumping whatever into the storm sewers.’ To that end, the Northern Kentucky Hazardous Household Waste group has designed a plan to make it easy to dispose of potential pollutants without having to worry about whether you’re poisoning someone’s glass of water.
The group has designated three priorities, based on the numbers of calls they get from people wondering how to get rid of this or that:
Paint – Pop off the lid and let the contents dry, Mary says. You may have to stir it occasionally to make sure it dries thoroughly.
If the can is more full than empty, you can add kitty litter or pour it onto a newspaper. this web site how to get rid of pimples overnight
Once it’s dry, Louise says, it’s OK to leave it out for your, uh, garbageperson.
Motor oil – Used or not, many auto supply outlets and oil change stores will take it, although most have a five-gallon limit.
For a list, call 859-341-4151 or visit www.nkyhealth.org and click HHW.
Antifreeze – Dr. Steve Hiltz, a gastroenterologist who is also chairman of the Kenton County Board of Health, says this can be dangerous to have around children because it has a sweet taste. Here again, call 859-341-4151 to find out how to get rid of it.
That’s a good number to keep handy. You never know what you might find around the house. She mentions that her supervisor, Alan Kalos, once found a box containing a strange metallic liquid in his basement.
‘The house had belonged to his father-in-law,’ she says.
‘He was a dentist when mercury was a component in fillings. Inside the box were five pounds of mercury.
‘Can you imagine?’
George Michael está escribiendo una canción sobre su lucha contra la enfermedad que casi lo llevó a la muerte en un hospital de Viena el año pasado, anunció el cantante británico el miércoles en Twitter.
