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It definitely shows the danger of environmental laws that are too lax. It is difficult to walk the line between being business friendly and keeping stuff like this from occurring. Not sure how "clean" manufacturing of products such as those mentioned can be, but surely something like this can be avoided. I can see why companies want to move manufacturing of items that produce these kind of pollutants overseas, I doubt many in The West would allow this in their backyards:shocked:
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Cancer casts a shadow over the villages in this region of China in southern Guangdong province, nestled among farmland contaminated by heavy metals used to make batteries, computer parts and other electronics devices.
It definitely shows the danger of environmental laws that are too lax. It is difficult to walk the line between being business friendly and keeping stuff like this from occurring. Not sure how "clean" manufacturing of products such as those mentioned can be, but surely something like this can be avoided. I can see why companies want to move manufacturing of items that produce these kind of pollutants overseas, I doubt many in The West would allow this in their backyards:shocked: