The Blacksmith Institute yesterday released a new list of the “Worst Polluted Places” in the world. This year the places spread out over 7 countries and effect over 12-million people. In Vapi, India, for instance, “Local produce has been found to contain up to 60 times more heavy metals (copper, chromium, cadmium, zinc, nickel, lead, iron) than non-contaminated produce in control groups,” according to the Blacksmith Institute. Appetizing. Here’s a list of the top 10 sites, along with a map containing the “dirty thirty.”
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Sumgayit, Azerbaijan
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Linfen, China
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Tianying, China
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Sukinda, India
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Vapi, India
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La Oroya, Peru
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Dzerzhinsk, Russia
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Norilsk, Russia
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Chernobyl, Ukraine
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Kabwe, Zambia.
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