CBS News has released a preview of this Sunday’s 60 Minutes program about e-dumping in China, which shows a camera crew being roughed up while filming in Guiyu: Jumped by a gang of men overseeing the e-waste operations who...
Read MoreFrom AFP: Three containers with suspected toxic electronic waste from the United States were detained by Hong Kong inspectors after environmental activists boarded a cargo ship, a campaigner said Sunday. The activists from...
Read MoreFrom Treehugger.com: When used computers, televisions and other electronic products are ready to go up to that big scrap heap in the sky, they often end their journeys lying in some large landfill in China. Indeed, over the last decade, China has quickly become the de facto repository for developed countries’ discarded electronics, known collectively […]
Read MoreFrom Keralanext: If statistics released by the China Home Electronics Association are to be believed, around 150 million home appliances, including TV sets, washing machines, refrigerators, air-conditioners and computers, are discarded every year in the country, besides an unknown amount of other electronic items. Besides, according to a report by the Beijing-based Science and Technology […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily Online: China has become a major dumping ground for electronic waste and risks becoming the world’s high-tech waste bin, posing hazards for people and the environment, Greenpeace warned… Although China has banned electronic waste from being imported, companies still export the waste there illegally while a lot more is generated domestically, said […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua Online More than 4,000 Chinese electronics manufacturers would face tough tests from Sony Corp. as the Japanese electronics giant was adopting a new Green Partner (GP) program, the Shenzhen Economic Daily reported. The GP program is for environmental management systems to meet more stringent environmental standards set by the European Union (EU) on […]
Read MoreJonathan Watts reports for the Guardian (via chinadialogue): Since last year, there has been an explosion of lead poisoning cases close to smelting plants. Studies have shown that communities that recycle electronic waste are...
Read MoreAnother chapter in the Guiyu e-waste story, this time from Daily Telegraph with a holiday twist: The Chinese town of Guiyu is the graveyard of Christmas past. It is where presents – game consoles, laptops, mobile phones – come to die. It is also where they are reborn. In this giant scrap-yard, so dangerously polluted […]
Read MoreIn 2020, CDT Chinese editors launched the CDT Censorship Digest series. The series will collect and quote from news and online speech that was censored by Chinese authorities during the previous month, as well as summarize...
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