• Mining

    • Mining gives us the stuff we need to produce energy, houses, cars, computers, and thousands of other products. But mining can be nasty business.

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  • Wastewater from steel mining

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    • Gigantic amounts

    Wastewaters are generated at a rate of 80 tons per ton of steel produced. Almost 90 billion tons annually or 13 tons for every single person on the planet. And that’s just steel.

    No. 1 toxic polluter

    Mining is the number one toxic polluter, responsible for up to 96 percent of arsenic emissions and 76 percent of lead emissions.

    Use up freshwater too

    Mining requires gigantic quantities of freshwater for virtually every aspect of the operation. Water tables have been found to decline by as much as 300 meters around open-pit mines.

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