China's E-Waste Nightmare Worsening

November 18th, 2007 in Technology / Other
China's E-Waste Nightmare Worsening (AP)

Discarded computer keyboards lie in a pile in the streets of Guiyu, China, March 16, 2006. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)

(AP) -- The air smells acrid from the squat gas burners that sit outside homes, melting wires to recover copper and cooking computer motherboards to release gold. Migrant workers in filthy clothes smash picture tubes by hand to recover glass and electronic parts, releasing as much as 6.5 pounds of lead dust.

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