ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

• Population in china is 1.351 billion
• Population in UK is 63.23 million

• Most dangerous pollution particles were more than 20 times the international recognised safe limit

• Accused of discharging pollutants
• Focusing on output rather than environmental issues
• Claiming it had a tough code of conduct for all its supply firms
• 100 workers were contaminated at one Chinese plant

• Big textile retailers such as Adidas, Abercrombie and Fitch and H&M
• Using suppliers that are polluting Chinese rivers with banned chemcials
• Due to lack of environment regulations in China

• Shangba, a city in southern Guangdong province
• River flows through town changes from white to a startling shade of orange
• Due to varing types of industrial effluent
• " All the fish died, even chickens and ducks that drank from the river died"
• Last year alone six people died from cancer
• Chemicals and heavy metals banned in other countries are found throughout China
• "Some serious cases of health and social problems like the emergence of cancer villages in individual regions