A woman crosses a bridge next to a tannery factory by the river Buriganga at Hazaribagh in Dhaka July 12, 2012. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj
DHAKA (Reuters) - Luxury leather goods sold across the world are produced in a slum area of Bangladesh's capital where workers, including children, are exposed to hazardous chemicals and often injured in horrific accidents, according to a study released on Tuesday.
None of the tanneries packed cheek by jowl into Dhaka's Hazaribagh neighbourhood treat their waste water, which contains animal flesh, sulphuric acid, chromium and lead, leaving it to spew into open gutters and eventually the city's main river.
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