Recycling Poison: Inside China's E-Waste Workshops

Submitted by Clancy on August 26, 2002 - 15:09.

Kairosnews readers: You need to see this. What can be done? Young teenagers in China are working 9-hour days, inhaling carcinogenic dioxins from plastics and printer ink, making $1.50 a day, getting sick. Not to mention what it's doing to the environment. This is a photo essay accompanied by text.

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Re: Recycling Poison: Inside China's E-Waste Workshops

Submitted by Clancy on August 27, 2002 - 12:44.

This piece was actually first posted by cel4145. Sorry for the duplication; I don't know how I missed it before! :-o

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Re:how I missed it before!

Submitted by cel4145 on August 28, 2002 - 11:51.

You were probably overly disgusted/enraged by the the pictures. I was shocked when I read/saw it the first time. It's pretty bad, too, when you consider that our use of computers is feeding this situation :(

What's our cupability here as the producers of this waste? I think western society should take some degree of responsibility for this.