Improving Conditions in the ship breaking industry

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Lillian H

 

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August 22, 2012

 

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University

 

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There are more than forty thousand laborers in the Sosiya ship breaking yard in Alang, India (Raj) and one of every four workers in the yard is expected catch some form of cancer. The astonishing statistic is due to the high amount of asbestos that workers are in contact with when breaking the ships (Kanthak and Jayaraman 6)...
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The end of life ships that come to poor Asian countries are not decontaminated of toxics such as asbestos and heavy metals, thus workers risk coming into contact with these substances. Rich ship owners find that Asian countries such as India and Bangladesh are plentiful in low-priced laborers and lack environmental and safe working laws, and so they dump their end of life ships onto these countries...
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