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Cut Flowers
Much of the cut flowers imported into the U.S. are coming from former rainforest areas of Colombia and Ecuador, the two largest flower exporters to the U.S. after Holland.
Flower plantations use large amounts of chemicals to grow these usually non-native flower varieties in a tropical environment where insects, fungi and other life forms are the norm.
These chemicals are contaminating these areas as well as those who work on the plantations.
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