America people own 3 billion electronic product, for example: computers, cellphones, TVs, but they never recycle, and they also export their trash to other country. Americans discarded over 300 million units in 2005, and at least half of the US.'s e- waste are ends up by overseas, in China, India, and also in Nigeria. Still, America today still cannot and doesn't have the system or kind of facilities to fully recycle it's e- waste. In Guiyu, you can see trucks or cars that came by and going to import the trash to the China people. And Guiyu is dumped with at least 1 million tons of e-trash a year, mostly is from other countries, which is foreign. People in China also work with e- trash at a stationery factory, which is a place that you burn the trash. And normally people in China that do that is usually poor people that needs the job the most. And the thing that shocked me the most is that they don't wear mask when they are doing these burning stuffs. People doing that with no protection, and no covers(mask, eye cover). They don't even care about will they be unhealthy after these burning plastic thing. And people burn every piece of plastic scrap before sorting them, they can make $6 per day. Even some of the teenagers are involved. So we can see from this thing, because it is obvious that they really need that job. A thing that I think China didn't do well is they dump everything into the river, so the river became messy and dirty, it looks nasty. And when you start doing that(dumping the trash into the river), then you can never clean it up again. And that's bad, but people in China doesn't care, because they don't live there, so it doesn't effect them. But if they don't try to solve it, then it will be a large problem in China forever, till the world ends.
Monday, June 2, 2008
How waste and recyclable materials are being sent to China from Europe and the USA?
Posted by bluejeanjean at 7:19 AM
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