From environmental crimes caused by toxic pollution to the mounting human cost of cheap fashion, 2012 featured some serious lowlights. Over at Ecouterre, we’ve rounded up seven stories we’d sooner forget ever happened, beginning with the factory fire in Bangladesh that claimed the lives of at least 112 garment workers in November (pictured above). Click through to see them all and cast your vote for the year’s worst.
Ecouterre's Year in Shame -- Vote for the Most Deplorable Story of 2012
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Mark Boyer, 12/29/12
filed under: Accessories and Fashion
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