Gallery: Inside Bangladesh's Polluted, Billion-Dollar Leather Industry
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Workers wash leather hides in open pits while wearing no shoes or gloves.
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A worker staples leather for drying. This batch will be used for handbags and wallets.
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Children play on mounds of leather scraps littering Hazaribagh.
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A worker removes a newly pressed hide from a machine.
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Animal carcasses are tied together into bags that are then dumped. The rotting carcasses draw in wild dogs and other animals, often bringing disease.
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One of the main sewage pipes in Hazaribagh leaks water into the Buriganga River.
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Villagers dry leather from the factories.
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Hassan Ali, age 11, collects leftovers from the carcasses of animals used for leather hides.
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A woman collects dried leather.
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A man prepares to slaughter a goat and sheep for their leather.
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Workers mix skins inside pits fllled with chemicals.
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These steel drums are filled with toxic chemicals like chromium, which is used to tan leather.
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A worker presses a leather hide.
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Locals transport leather in carts.
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