Chemical Pollution in the Yangtze River

Wastewater reaches the Yangtze river through discharges in the Heisha river, carried out by the Tianmashan Gold Mine Company, without any treatment ahead.

In original language:

长江流域的化学污染

安徽铜陵天马山黄金矿业公司洗矿厂污水在没有任何处理下通过黑沙河流入长江。

Unique identifier: GP0STRNZI

Type: Image

Shoot date: 09/01/2010

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

Credit line: © Lu Guang / Greenpeace

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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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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