{"id":40557,"date":"2025-05-03T21:10:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T21:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/mexico-factory-that-imports-us-toxic-waste-to-relocate-after-guardian-report\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T21:10:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T21:10:49","slug":"mexico-factory-that-imports-us-toxic-waste-to-relocate-after-guardian-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/mexico-factory-that-imports-us-toxic-waste-to-relocate-after-guardian-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico factory that imports US toxic waste to relocate after Guardian report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zinc Nacional will move \u2018most polluting\u2019 operations after joint investigation found heavy-metals pollution in area<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2025\/jan\/14\/monterrey-mexico-steel-us-toxic-waste\">Revealed: US hazardous waste is sent to Mexico \u2013 where a \u2018toxic cocktail\u2019 of pollution emerges<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/18\/zinc-nacional-monterrey-mexico-shutdown\">factory<\/a> processing US hazardous waste in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/mexico\">Mexico<\/a> has promised to relocate what authorities call its \u201cmost polluting\u201d operations following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2025\/jan\/14\/monterrey-mexico-steel-us-toxic-waste\">Guardian investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The plant in the Monterrey metropolitan area recycles toxic steel dust sent by the US steel industry and<strong> <\/strong>recovers zinc, according to that reporting, which was produced in partnership with Quinto Elemento Lab, a Mexico investigative journalism unit. It revealed evidence of heavy-metals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/pollution\">pollution<\/a> in the surrounding neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/03\/mexico-zinc-nacional-factory-hazardous-waste-relocation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zinc Nacional will move \u2018most polluting\u2019 operations after joint investigation found heavy-metals pollution in area Revealed: US hazardous waste is sent to Mexico \u2013 where a \u2018toxic cocktail\u2019 of pollution emerges A factory processing US hazardous waste in Mexico has promised to relocate what authorities call its \u201cmost polluting\u201d operations following a Guardian investigation. The &#8230; <a title=\"Mexico factory that imports US toxic waste to relocate after Guardian report\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/mexico-factory-that-imports-us-toxic-waste-to-relocate-after-guardian-report\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mexico factory that imports US toxic waste to relocate after Guardian report\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}