Boston Hides & Furs Ltd, a Chelsea leather company, is said to have abandoned 40 tons of decaying cow hides at an abandoned tannery building in Waterboro, Maine, USA.

One hundred loaded pallets were left at an unused tannery facility in Waterboro attracting swarms of flies to the town. The company has since contributed to the cleanup by fumigating the hides, sheathing them in plastic and placing them on refrigerated trucks at the site. The future of the hides is still to be decided and the company still hopes to sell the pelts to a glue factory.

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