Reforms slow in Bangladesh's toxic tanneries

Agence France-Presse    Translate This Article
2 March 2014

On 2 March 2014 Agence France-Presse reported: The tragedy that killed 1,135 people in a garment factory in Bangladesh finally forced Western retailers into action. But there are few signs of reform at Bangladesh's leather industry, where conditions are equally atrocious and business is booming thanks to the West's growing demand for cheap leather items. 'In these tanneries, death comes slowly,' said activist Rizwana Hasan, referring to respiratory problems, cancers, skin diseases, and other illnesses that doctors blame on long hours and few safety precautions. An AFP reporter recently saw children as young as 14 working inside one tannery, whose floor was awash with chromium effluent, and where cow and goat skins caked in salt were stacked in piles. Tanneries are also deadly to the environment: every day, they collectively dump 22,000 cubic litres of toxic waste, including cancer-causing chromium, into the Buriganga -- Dhaka's main river and a key water supply. The area, once a pleasant, semi-rural district, has been transformed into a patchwork of toxic swamps, garbage landfills, and mountains of decomposing leather scraps. Global Good News service views this news as the failure of modern government systems. Such 'flops' highlight the need for more intelligent, evolutionary, Natural Law based, life-supporting systems.

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