Arusha — ARUSHA, which was always described as one of the greenest cities in East Africa, is slowly but surely losing this status due to massive logging of trees by major textile firms.
Some of the major log users include A-to-Z which operates two textile factories in Kisongo and Unga-Limited as well as Sun-Flag Tanzania Limited which runs one in Njiro. The factories burn logs in order to steam up the giant boilers at their respective garment mills.
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