INDONESIAN TEXTILE INDUSTRY UNDER PRESSURE OVER POLLUTION CLAIMS
May 26th, 2015
THE INDONESIAN textile industry is being put under pressure to boost its environmental performance by international non-governmental organisation (NGO) Greenpeace, which has accused sector of poisoning a major river in West Java.WTiN.com visited elderly residents in Majalaya, a small town by the Citarum River, who say it was once clean enough to wash in. But today the liquid flowing past the town is a grey, foul-smelling cocktail of industrial chemicals and human and agricultural waste. Since the 1970s, at least 700 textiles factories have set up in Majalaya, ...
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