In 1970 the factory started production of specialised road vehicles: tanks, all-terrain trucks and dump trucks.

The banks of the river attracted informal settlers and remaining factories dumped their wastes into the river, making it effectively a huge sewer system.

For example, pharmaceutical companies may make false claims regarding their drugs and factories may illegally dump toxic waste.

"Every day, the factories dump chemicals in the sea and the big ships leave their diesel."

She noted that factories commonly dump wastewater into rivers and that environmental officials lack the political power to stop it.

All the complaints about third world sweatshops are true and then some: factories sometimes dump effluent into rivers or otherwise ravage the environment.

Having lost the opportunity to oppose the factory itself, local opposition first focused on the factory's dumping plans.

For decades, factories had been dumping waste in the Asopos River, whose waters run from red to black and ripple with bubbling sludge.

G.E., whose factories dumped the bulk of the oily chemical into the Hudson, would be largely responsible for any cleanup.

From 1946 to 1968, factories dumped their waste in the town landfill.