Brick by Brick
By Sohara Mehroze Shachi / Visuals: Larry C. Price
Though only a small part of Bangladesh’s GDP, brickmaking plays an outsized role in spreading pollution — and disease.
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Worldwide, ambient particulate matter ranks as the sixth leading risk factor for premature death. Those risks are particularly acute in Dhaka, where fine particle pollution — much of it arising from more than 1,000 brickmaking operations — is relentlessly inhaled by residents with little recourse.
