Residents of Cinangka village in Bogor, West Java, a center for used battery smelting, are sleeping sounder after Indonesian and American organizations carried out the country’s first encapsulation cleanup of lead slag waste in their area.
Jakarta Post: Bogor village ridden with toxic lead gets modern cleanup
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11 June 2014 at 12:00
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