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Bangladesh's Toxic Tanneries

Workers process animal skins in a Leather factory in Hazaribagh, Dhaka. Tanneries in the city's Hazaribagh area discharge 30000 square meters of liquid waste everyday. The tanneries discharge the effluents into the river system causing a large area of acid sludge..The Bangladeshi leather industry has earned 980.67 million US dollar from the exports of leather and leather goods in fiscal 2012/2013, according to Bangladesh's Export Promotion Bureau. (Photo by Zakir Hossain Chowdhury/NurPhoto)

Photo ID	#1029763
Date Taken	1 February 2016
Location	N/A
Photographer	Zakir Hossain Chowdhury/NurPhoto
Category	Social Issue
Copyright	© 2026 NurPhoto - Zakir Hossain Chowdhury/NurPhoto

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