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Photo essay: Inside the Digital Dump

posted May 30th, 2007 by Mike Chin

Natalie Behring visited an e-waste dump in the southern Chinese city of Guiyu with a camera and captured a series of appalling scenes for a photo essay published by Foreign Policy

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Sat, 06/23/2007 - 15:09 — Derfel

Re: Just wondering...

I too am very interested in where this stuff come from, but more in a sector sense. I know it's mostly North American and European; but is it waste from business driven dumping or collections of personal use electronics gathered and sent over-seas? One would thing much could be "re-cycled" into used computers for social programs, but I suppose it would depend on how the waste is generated in the first place.

Sat, 06/02/2007 - 13:43 — NeilBlanchard

Just wondering...

Greetings,

Is it just me, or does it look like these hard working people are a bit overdressed for the work they are doing? Maybe the PR person had something to do with it?

I also wonder where these components came from -- are they "local" or do they get shipped in from other continents?
Sincerely, Neil

Thu, 07/19/2007 - 17:35 — boscomonkey

The outfits look

The outfits look appropriate. You'd see this all over China. From the charcoal smoke coming out of the stack, it looks like a rather cool day.

> Is it just me, or does it look like these hard working people are a
> bit overdressed for the work they are doing? Maybe the PR person had
> something to do with it?

Thu, 01/03/2008 - 00:19 — eglasgow

Greetings

Excellent!!! !