> It’s a lack of government regulation and it’s domestic businesses - willing to cut corners to make a buck with the new opportunities that western companies represent - doing it themselves.

So it’s their own fault for not knowing any better and not having regulations in place for pollution from industry they have no experience with? I see.

This is how the current economic model for developing a country works, take advantage of their lack of labor laws because they don’t know any better, pollute their environment, and introduce them to plastic trinkets and western capitalism. Once they figure out they’ve been taken advantage of the company leaves for somewhere cheaper to do it over again. Except now, this developing country is left with an environmental mess they can’t clean up and their economy is fucked.