Mexican officials ordered furnaces to shut down after report on very high levels of pollutants in surrounding neighborhood
Authorities ordered the shutdown of two furnaces at a Mexican recycling plant that processes hazardous waste exported from the US, after an investigation by the Guardian and Quinto Elemento Lab, which revealed heavy metals contamination in nearby homes and schools.
A team from the environmental agency of the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon visited the plant in a heavily populated part of the Monterrey metropolitan area on Thursday.