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Toxic Fashion / Bangladesh Study

31 May 2024

3 minutes

Water samples were collected from lakes and rivers in areas near densely populated areas and industrial centres including textiles and other manufacturing facilities (including garment, tannery, electronics, chemicals, pharmaceutical, and/or steel plants).

Bangladesh Factories Making Clothes for Global Fashion Brands Linked to High PFAS Contamination of Surface and Drinking Waters

A global manufacturing centre of the fast fashion sector, Bangladesh, with no specific regulations on PFAS, has high levels of toxic PFAS chemicals in its surface and tap water samples, collected from industrial areas that are centres of the textiles industry throughout and around Dhaka.

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