If you live in the EU, chances are your plastic trash might be recycled by child or migrant workers in Turkey.
Each year, hundreds of thousands of metric tons of plastic waste from the European Union are shipped to Turkey for recycling. Yet plastic recycling facilities in Turkey are threatening the health of local communities and workers, including children, refugees, and undocument...
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Krista Shennum is a Gruber Fellow with the environment and human rights division at Human Rights Watch.