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Day
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KWCI (GPI)
One person
Outdoors
River pollution
Rivers
Textile industry
Toxics (campaign title)
Victims
Villages
Water pollution
Women
Local Woman in Guangdong Province
“We don’t ever dare to open our windows, it stinks too much,” this woman from Ximei Village tells Greenpeace. “And there’s a lot of mosquitos here – big ones, too.” Ximei Village is right next to the Xiao Xi river, into which many factories in Gurao, Shantou, discharge their wastewater. In Gurao, where the economy is centered around textile production, Greenpeace has found high levels of industrial pollution and has documented the effects on the community.
Unique identifier:
GP028B5
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
05/06/2010
Locations:
China
,
East Asia
,
Guangdong
Credit line:
© Lu Guang / Greenpeace
Ranking:
★★★★★★★ (A)
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Intimate Pollution in China
Greenpeace has found high levels of industrial pollution in two factory towns in Guangdong province, China. Both these towns have economies that center around textile production. Gurao, in Shantou, produces 200 million bras every year and is known as one of China’s leading towns for underwear manufacturing. Xintang, in Zengcheng, is devoted to the complete manufacturing process of jeans, from weaving, dyeing and washing to tailoring and packaging. More than 60% of China’s jeans are produced in Xintang, which also accounts for 40% of all of China’s exported jeans. Greenpeace has documented the severe effect of industrial pollution on the residents of Xintang and Gurao.
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