Nigeria Closes Lead Recycling Factories Linked to U.S. Car Industry
Carmakers have known for decades that battery recycling was poisoning people abroad. Nigeria’s crackdown is an effort to catalog the damage.
Carmakers have known for decades that battery recycling was poisoning people abroad. Nigeria’s crackdown is an effort to catalog the damage.
Despite decades of evidence on the toxic effects of lead battery recycling, companies opted not to act and blocked efforts to clean up the industry.
Despite decades of evidence on the toxic effects of lead battery recycling, companies opted not to act and blocked efforts to clean up the industry.
Blood and soil testing confirmed the health consequences. Then we tracked individual shipments to the United States.
The South African executive stated that just about 900 society, many youngsters, had fallen ill since September.