Greenpeace Reports Textile Industry Pollutes China’s Rivers

Xintang in Guangdong Province is known as China’s “Jeans Town.” In 2008 it produced 260 million pairs of jeans, making up more than 60 percent of national production and roughly 40 percent of jeans consumption in the United States that year.

The Dong River running through the town is blackened and covered in foam.

@Greenpeace