Dressed in drab red jumpers, two children climb to the top of a rubbish heap a dozen times taller than them. The shocking scene is typical of Buenos Aires' Matanza-Riachuelo river basin, one of the ten most polluted places in the world. A list of ten filthy sites, from Russia to Indonesia to Ghana, has been amassed by the global environmental group The Blacksmith Institute - which says 200 million people are endangered daily in the top ten places alone. 1: Matanza-Riachuelo River Basin, Buenos Aires. It is just 37 miles long but its banks are packed with 15,000 industries spewing chemicals like zinc, lead, copper, nickel and chromium into the filthy water
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Horrifying list compiled by environmental body The Blacksmith Institute
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Sites include mines, factories, landfills and the Chernobyl nuclear plant
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The top ten alone put more than 200 million people in danger every day
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