CNN.com’s international online site carried a story (with video) about denim dyes polluting the Pearl River in China. Writer, Emily Chang’s story is disturbing, but all too familiar. Industries along the Pearl River have put the environment in widespread peril with a multitude of toxins. Should we boycott blue jeans…the staple of everyone’s wardrobe these days?

Quoting from Chang’s piece on CNN, “The Pearl River has sustained Chinese civilization for ages, but over the last few decades, civilization has not been kind to the river. It has become a dumping ground for debris, floating among massive algae blooms and even pig carcasses. Agricultural runoff is one of the river’s biggest threats, next to industrial pollution.
The river is the lifeblood of the “world’s factory floor,” thousands of factories that produce the world’s toys, mobile phones, computers, textiles and more. It is also the blue jean capital of the world.”

Read the whole story  and watch the informative video at CNN.com.