The e-waste land [1]: \"It...

The e-waste land: "It had to end here, in an impoverished region of Asia. Once a peaceful, rice-growing village, Guiyu, in the Guangdong province of China, has become an electronic junkyard - a grotesque, sci-fi fusion of technology and deprivation. Guiyu, and many places like it in India, Vietnam, Singapore and Pakistan, is where electrical waste from the west is routinely shipped for "recycling". Around 100,000 men, women and children in Guiyu make $1.50 (94p) a day, breaking discarded computers and other electronic goods - mainly American, but also from the UK - into component materials of steel, aluminium, copper, plastic and gold."