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Article

23 Jul 2007

Author:
Greenpeace

Toxic tea party [China]

Guiyu, near China's southeastern coast is the centre of an uncontrolled environmental disaster. Here and in several nearby townships, electronic waste, most of it imported, is broken up in small workshops. It's a version of outsourcing that saves wealthier countries the high cost of disposing of their electronic trash. In this part of China recycling e-waste is apparently free of any environmental or health and safety regulation. [includes section entitled "lead poisoning"] [refers to Apple, Compaq, Dell, HP, IBM, LG, Motorola, NEC, Sun Microsystems]