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. >> the operators of a small-scale tannery in tokyo stepped in to help. they receive animal hides from communities all across japan with the same problem and process the skins at discounted price. >> translator: we're not just trying to sell products as a tannery. we want to be of use to these communities. our work seems to be in line with their needs so we're happy to be collaborating with them. >> the operators then send the leathers back to misato. elderly residents then turn them into products for daily use. the town's major1970s was sewiny women worked at seamstresses. but they started losing their jobs in the '80s as the local fabric industry slowed down. and now, the women are once again putting their leather sewing techniques into practice. they transform the leather into items like change purses and pencil cases. each piece showcases the unique handiwork of the person who made it. the women then sell what they made. >> i like doing this together with my friends. that's why i come here. it's more fun to work with them than to stay home by myself.

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as area bagus classified as one of the world's thirty most polluted sites its tanneries are an out and out ecological disaster playing to waste everything around them every day the factories belch for fifteen thousand cubic meters of toxic refuse leaving it to pile up amid the housing and along the river bank. the demand soon the waste floods into two elling penetrating the soil and filtering down to contaminate the water tables. the brewery gang the river flows through the slum is paying the highest price. the tanneries use vast amounts of water millions of liters of water are required to wash treat and tender skins. this water goes into the sewers. it is no longer useful you know that it is discarded. it ends up polluting the river. haven't you noticed the state of the burgan the rivers water this is the water that flows into it. all this water laden with chemical products is dumped directly into the river with no purification.

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as area bagus classified as one of the world's thirty most polluted sites its tanneries are an out and out ecological disaster playing to waste everything around them every day the factories belch for fifteen thousand cubic meters of toxic refuse leaving it to pile up amid the housing and along the river bank. the demand soon the waste floods into to eling penetrating the soil and filtering down to contaminate the water tables. the brewery ganger river that flows through the slum is paying the highest price. the town.

million euros per year for the country was very bad suburb of the capital dhaka around three hundred tanneries occupy a field of twenty five acres producing the clothes and leather goods that flood the international market. that was more than fourteen million skins are treated every year in this slum warehouses in tanaris sit side by side. a nightmare situation for which we westerners are also responsible i was this was. this wasn't the was skins arrive like this every day and each one of the factories where in one of the has very bad tenor is an average sized factory employing around thirty workers it's here that the cycle of leather tanning begins.

as area bagus classified as one of the world's thirty most polluted sites its tanneries are an out and out ecological disaster playing to waste everything around them every day the factories belch for fifteen thousand cubic meters of toxic refuse leaving it to pile up amid the housing and along the river bank. the demand soon the waste floods into two elling penetrating the soil and filtering down to contaminate the water tables. the brewery gang the river that flows through the slum is paying the highest price.