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Keywords
Day
Dumping
Elderly
Factories
KWCI (GPI)
Men
One person
Outdoors
Outflow pipes
Pollution
Portraits
River pollution
Rivers
Textile industry
Toxics (campaign title)
Victims
Water
Water pollution
Outflow Pipe in Pearl River Delta Region
Mr.Cheng shows the outflow pipe from the Qingyuan Top Dragon Textile company. He discovered the pipe because of the acrid smell and black foam blowing into his house. Hormone disrupting alkyl phenols, priority hazardous chemicals under EU legislation, were found in samples of wastewater discharge from the facility. Wastewater is discharged from Top Dragon via an underground channel which flows into a nearby stream approximately 100 metres from the facility.
Unique identifier:
GP01VTM
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
31/08/2009
Locations:
Asia
,
China
,
Guangdong
,
Qingyuan
Credit line:
© Greenpeace / John Novis
Ranking:
★★★★★★★ (A)
Containers
Shoot:
Pearl River Delta Pollution
The Pearl River Delta has become one of the leading economic regions and a major manufacturing centre of China. Greenpeace collected and analysed 25 samples of waste water discharges and sediments from five industrial sites located throughout the Pearl River Delta region. A diverse range of hazardous chemicals were found, including high levels of heavy metals such as beryllium, copper and manganese.
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