If you have anything made in China around your house, you better be worried. If you have children in your house, you better be petrified.
China routinely exports lead contaminated products all around the world. In 2007, for example, over 20 million lead contaminated toys were recalled worldwide. Nearly 1 million lead contaminated Chinese products were recalled in the U.S.
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Thursday, June 24. 2010
Why Does China Continue to Poison The World With Lead?
Sunday, August 23. 2009
The Ship Breakers
Type in “Alang, India” into Google Earth and do a flyover of the beach. See the ships?
This is where ships go to die.
At Alang the ships are broken up into small recycled pieces of scrap. Prior to the current recession, the ship breakers broke down 50 ships a month.
Now they are down to about 25 ships per month.
The working conditions are poor, and the 20,000 workers receive Rs.240 per day ($5.00).
There has been a push in recent years to improve the workers’ safety and health, and to be more environmentally conscious.
The environmental consequences of the ship breaking so far has been horrible, with both the workers and the environment inundated with pollutants such as asbestos, lead, and poisonous chemicals.
Thursday, July 16. 2009
The World’s Most Polluted City
is Linfen, China. It is 350 miles southwest of Bejing.
Last year VBS.tv produced a short film on the city.
You can see Parts 1-4 of the five-part film at the Daily Green
You won’t believe what you see.
