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Verónica García de León and Erin McCormick

Mexico authorities order factory cleanup after Guardian toxic waste investigation

A composite of researchers collecting dust samples from a window sill, the Zinc Nacional plant and a woman looking at a chest X-ray.

Mexican environmental regulators say they have discovered 30,000 tons of improperly stored material with “hazardous characteristics” in the yard of a Mexican plant that is recycling toxic waste shipped from the US.

The authorities ordered “urgent measures” to get the materials into proper storage as part of inspections they are conducting in response to an investigation from the Guardian and Quinto Elemento Lab, which raised questions about contamination around the plant, located in the Monterrey metro area.

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