Wednesday 9 February 2011

China

The price of success: China blighted by industrial pollution – in pictures

A Greenpeace report has called on the Chinese textile industry to clean up its processes after finding high levels of pollution in the southern industrial towns of Xintang – the "jeans capital of the world" – and Gurao, a manufacturing town 80% of whose economy is devoted to bras, underwear, and other clothing articles.

The report said the pollution is emblematic of textile manufacturing in China and the industry must review its practices

More info here:

http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/news/textile-pollution-xintang-gurao

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