E-Waste

E-Waste book cover — E WASTE By David M Barker ECOLOGICAL DISASTERS Content Consultant Peter Little Assistant Professor of Anthropology Rhode Island College Essential Library An Imprint of Abdo Publishing I abdopublishing com

E-Waste — page 1 — Most of the e waste recycled at Guiyu came from outside of China

E-Waste — page 2 — Chapter ONE A HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER Guiyu is a collection of 28 villages in Guangdong Province in southern China It U has approximately 132 000 inhabitants and 100 000 migrant workers From the 1990s until 2015 60 to 80 percent of the families in Guiyu made a living recycling electronic waste or e waste They worked out of almost 6 000 family businesses These were informal businesses and the workplaces were unregulated The town was notorious for unhealthy work conditions

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