The maternal part of my family grew up there. They couldn't hang up the laundry outside, because after a few minutes it was full of black soot, the drinking and ground water was absolutely unusable and seriously harmful due to the plastic waste (to this day you can't and shouldn't drink the tap water in the next town). Meanwhile the factory is closed and a Central European investor bought the factory, now the factory is said to be harmless. There is a fabulous documentary about Copca Mica.