Electronic Waste

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E-waste dump of the world
By Tim Johnson
Knight Ridder Newspapers
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NORMAN NG / KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERSA worker piles chuck out aluminum estimator casings on the back of a motorized transport at the town of Guiyu in southern China.Workers attract plastics from throw away electronics in Guiyu, a few hours drive neon of Hong Kong. The city has 5,500 family workshops handling e-waste.|
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GUIYU, China â€" When discarded computers aerify from desktops around the world, they often end up in Guiyu, which may be the electronic-waste capital of the globe.
The city is a sprawling computer slaughterhouse. Some 60,000 laborers toil here at primitive e-waste recycling â€" if it can be called that â€" as yet as the work imperils their health amid a runoff of toxic metals and acids.
Computer carcasses line the streets, awaiting dismemberment. roofy boards and hard drives lie in huge mounds. At thousands of workshops, laborers tear and grind plastic casings into particles, snip cables and pry chips from circuit boards. Workers strike the boards through red-hot kilns or acid baths to dissolve lead, specie and other metals from the digital detritus. The acrid smell of burning conjoin and melting plastic fills the air.




Scavenging, not recycling
I dont think this is recycling, tell Wu Song, an environmental activist from nearby Shantou University. They ignore the environment.
What occurs is more uniform to e-waste scavenging. Though China discards imports of electronic waste, its factories clamor for raw materials, even those yanked from the guts of discarded computers, and ill-informed workers seek out computer-recycling jobs. So the ban is ignored, and the waste comes in torrents. Under the guise of recycling, U.S. e-waste brokers ship discarded computers and dump an environmental problem on China.
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