Honduran Children Have Gloomy Future
An unhappy and brief future is all the 200 Honduran children, who daily work in the capital's garbage dumps, can expect, with a life expectancy under 45 years due to pollutant substances.

Local press reported a study Thursday by an inter-institutional commission that denounced that these children collecting scraps in the municipal garbage dump are condemned to be poisoned.

The investigation reveals the time bomb in their little bodies of 13 toxic elements, including lead, arsenic, mercury and cadmium.

It informs that even if the levels of pollutant substances do not surpass internationally permitted levels, they still foster development of nervous diseases and shorten the children's lives.

The study was carried out by the Medical School of the University of Verona, Italy; the Center of Pollutant Studies and Control, in Cescco and the Tegucigalpa Mayor's Office.