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It takes 63 twenty-ounce plastic bottles to make a sweater.
— NAPCOR
Fourteen twenty-ounce PET plastic bottles yield enough fiberfill for a ski jacket.
— NAPCOR
It takes 85 twenty-ounce PET plastic bottles to make enough fiberfill for a sleeping bag.
— NAPCOR
”I started having kidney trouble because they wouldn’t let us drink water or go to the bathroom.”
— Carmen Durán
”Nike gives the workers 6.6 mins to make the shirt at 70 cents an hour in the Dominican Republic. That means the wages come from 3/10th of 1 percent of the retail price. ”
— Charles Kernaghan
”Sweatshops are back now, with a vengeance— 65% of all apparel operations in New York City are sweatshops. 50,000 workers. 4,500 factories out of 7,000. And we’re talking about workers getting a dollar or two an hour.
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— Charles Kernaghan
”Carmen, a typical factory employee, works the graveyard shift in Tijuana, six nights a week. After working all night, Carmen comes home to a shack she built out of recycled garage doors, in a neighborhood with no paved streets, no sewage lines and no electricity.”
— Carmen Durán of MAQUILAPOLIS
”[The companies] depart with their hands full, and leave us with our hands empty.”
— Carmen Durán of MAQUILAPOLIS
”When I was a kid [the river] was clean. When I got a little older and started working in the factories, I saw that the water was changing colors. ”
— Carmen Durán of MAQUILAPOLIS
”We are just objects, objects of labor.”
— Carmen Durán of MAQUILAPOLIS
Three of the most hazardous insecticides to humans (source: World Health Organization), aldicarb, parathion, and methamidopho, are in the top ten most commonly used in cotton production.
The 2nd most common cotton pesticide, aldicarb, is so toxic that one drop absorbed on skin can kill a man. It's used in 25 countries and the US. 16 states report it in their groundwater.
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