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Jeans firms pollute Mexican city with blue dye

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Posted on: May 3rd, 2007
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“Jeans factories have given jobs to thousands in the city of Tehuacan, the heartland of ’s denim industry, but they are pumping blue chemicals into rivers used to irrigate corn fields downstream.

Dozens of industrial laundries, some of which put the finishing touches to jeans for export, discharge a of bleach, dye and detergents into Tehuacan’s wide valley with almost no government controls, residents say.

In just one example of the widespread pollution, a dark blue sludge fills a ditch behind a high-tech Grupo Navarra factory, where jeans are laundered for brands made by Levi Strauss & Co and Gap Inc.”

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