Chemical Pollution in the Yangtze River

There are many iron mine processing factories alongside the Yangtze River in the area of the Cihu, Maansha City, Anhui Province, which cause heavy land and water pollution.

In original language:

长江流域的化学污染

安徽马鞍山慈湖长江边有很多选铁矿厂，污染严重。

Unique identifier: GP0STRNYS

Type: Image

Shoot date: 09/01/2010

Locations: Anhui, China, Cihu, East Asia, Ma'anshan, Yangtze River

Credit line: © Lu Guang / Greenpeace

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Chemical Pollution in the Yangtze River

For many years there has been growing concern over the manufacture and use of hazardous chemicals, and over the presence of many of these chemicals in the environment as a result of their release from industrial sources or from products that the chemicals have been used to manufacture. Largely as a result of legislation, the manufacture and use of some of the most hazardous chemicals has greatly reduced in many countries and regions in recent years. However, the opposite trend is being seen in China for certain hazardous chemicals, where their manufacture and/or use has either continued largely unchanged or, in some instances, actually increased considerably in the last decade.

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