Water Colors: 10 Unnaturally Dyed Polluted Rivers

[XemaSab]

http://webecoist.momtastic.com/2012/01/10/water-colors-10-unnaturally-dyed-polluted-rivers/

[AlecBGreen]

1. insanity

how can we as a species see what we are doing to this planet, our only home, and keep up business as usual?

“We’ve reached the point where we’re unfazed by things that should shake us to the core.” -Bill McKibben

[ThingsGottaChange]

2. So utterly depressing n/t

[Glen Bos]

3. We'll pay for this!

And not in 'heaven', on earth!

[90-percent]

4. Ahem

This is the beautiful side of pollution.

I sure hope the exec's that made the decisions that led to this get even bigger bonuses based on their beautiful defilement.

-90% Jimmy

[Tumbulu]

5. And the US, European and Japanese textile mills spent fortunes

putting in wastewater handling systems to keep the dye wastes from entering rivers and streams, only to have trade agreements allow all these textiles into the US from countries that saved money and thus were able to slash the costs by dumping dye wastes into public waterways. The cost of dye clean-up represented dollars per pound of yarn or fabric. Our mills (along with those in Japan and Western Europe) were clobbered and most closed shop. The mills in China, India and Indonesia got the business all right, those owners make a fortune, but the people living downstream of these businesses and the wildlife all suffer, in fact we all suffer.

Dye wastes are highly toxic, many are similar in structure to pesticides and are in fact produced by the same companies.