Battling e-waste in China’s industrial hub
Автор: The Hindu
Загружено: 2017-09-27
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he proliferation of cellphones, computers, television sets and other gizmos has a downside. The growing consumption of digital products is generating mountains of e-waste, whose disposal is posing serious health and environmental risks. But recycling of e-garbage is also providing jobs to hundreds of thousands in many parts of the developing world. China is at the heart of reconciling this contradiction between guaranteeing much needed incomes and preserving clean air, water and soil, necessary for public health.
Guiyu, a coastal township in southeast China, is the world’s e-waste capital. Since the turn of the century, the area has seen millions of tonnes of electronic leftovers, generated at home and abroad, being routinely dumped. The e-garbage pile began to inflate after some local businessmen taught residents the process of extracting valuable by-products — gold, silver and copper — from motherboards, wires and picture tubes. Poor workers provided the feedstock for this booming industry. But problems began to arise when people fell sick, and the drop in air, water and soil quality caught global attention. “The whole town was blanketed by foul air that smelled of acid. I always felt like coughing,” the South China Morning Post quoted Yang Linxuan, a resident, as saying.
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