Brickfields poses a dire threat to the environment. Use of 'topsoil' by the industry is lucrative both for sellers and buyers but the process destroys earth's surface layer permanently. As a result, acreage of cultivable land along with flora and fauna supported by the ecosystem is affected. Bangladesh. January 6, 2009.

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