Thursday, June 14, 2012

E-Waste City - Guiyu, China


While doing research this week I ran into an interesting article about an E-Waste City in China. I knew already that many third world countries were the source of our large-scale rubbish collection, but I did not know that cities like this existed. The entire city is similar to that of Cairo, Egypt with skilled laborers taking apart computers by the handful and recycling every bit that they can. See article below for more info:



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