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Toxic blight on US farmland

By Hiroko Tabuchi
The formerly active Galey & Lord textile plant in Society Hill, South Carolina. — Photos: Caroline Gutman/The New York Times

THE abandoned Galey & Lord textile mill in Society Hill, South Carolina, looms like a relic of industrial decay.

Steel gates stripped by looters, rusted tanks submerged in murky water and alligators patrolling wastewater ponds paint a dystopian scene.

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