How families risk their lives harvesting toxic green mussels in Indonesia
Families in Jakarta Bay are trapped in a cycle of debt while harvesting toxic green mussels from polluted waters. The environmental degradation of the bay has decimated local shellfish populations, forcing harvesters into increasingly dangerous conditions to survive.
In Indonesia's Jakarta Bay, thousands of families are trapped in debt as they harvest green mussels, one of the last surviving life-forms in the increasingly polluted waters. But as the bay offers less, their loans snowball, trapping them in an endless cycle of debt. That pushes them back into the toxic waters that have already killed two-thirds of shellfish in the bay. Read the original article on Business Insider
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