In 2021, the government approved a sale of land to the Mundo Branco fishmeal factory, despite local opposition, according to El Ciudadano, a monthly newspaper.¹ That same year, residents reported that the plant gave off nauseating smells, according to another article in El Ciudadano. Loose fish skeletons and liquids leaked from trucks with open-air loads dropping off raw materials to the plant. “My house is completely contaminated by that disgusting smell, you can't breathe,” one woman told the newspaper.²

In 2015, a truck from Mundo Branco fishmeal was documented dumping industrial waste near a farm at the border of a road in Buenos Aires Province. The levels of pollutants were more than 50 times above the regulatory maximum.³

Mundo Branco did not respond to a request for comment.⁴