This Unethical Isle: Five terrible things Britain exports to the world

‘From leaded petrol that causes brain damage, to weapons used in the war on Yemen and weed killer linked to Parkinson’s disease, Britain is openly exporting unethical goods and services to some of the world’s poorest and most abusive nations.
RT UK takes a look at some of Britain’s most questionable wares.
Leaded petrol
A British company is selling lead fuel additives – banned because of their “catastrophic” effects on human health – to one of the last remaining countries in the world where it is still legal, Greenpeace has revealed.
The Cheshire-based firm Innospec Ltd still sells tetraethyl lead, or TEL, to Algeria, despite the UK banning it in 1999. Innospec itself pledged to stop exporting the chemical by the end of 2012, then the end of 2013, then 2014.’
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