Those faded, distressed blue jeans might be harboring a dirty secret
Demand for ripped, distressed jeans is causing real distress in the garment industry. At least five factories in southern China are still using a widely banned practice of sandblasting—linked to an incurable form of lung disease—to wear out jeans, according to a new report (pdf) by a consortium of workers' rights groups. Sandblasting—a way of speeding...
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