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- 5. Guiyu • A town in the Chaoyang district of Guangdong province in China • Situated on the South China Sea coast • 1.5 million tons of e- waste
- 7. Some Facts • Work 16-hour-days dis-assembling • Small, family-run workshops • 5,500 Total businesses • 150,000 workers
- 8. Health and Environment Hazards • Recycling operations are toxic and dangerous • 88% of children suffering from lead poisoning • Higher-than-average rates of miscarriage are also reported in the region • Use of bare hands to rip of metals, printer toners etc • The soil has been saturated with lead, chromium, tin, and other heavy metals. • Discarded electronics lie in pools of toxins that leach into the groundwater, making it so polluted that the water is undrinkable • Piles of ash and plastic waste sit on the ground beside rice paddies and dikes holding in the Lianjiang river; Once a rice village, the pollution has made Guiyu unable to produce crops for food • Dust samples analysed and lead and copper were 371 and 115 times higher, respectively
- 9. Health and Environment Hazards Using Bare hands for Scavenging Burning of houses to hide open burning of metals
- 15. • Not that simple! • Massive revenues to local governments trumps human rights • Over 150,000 e-Waste workers would be unemployed • Revenues Earned: Tariffs + Taxation = 90% of regional government’s revenues • Shortage of raw materials for major industry in China Shut down Guiyu?
- 16. Other Factors • In countries like US, workers recover $1.5-2 • Additionally, in 2011 the United States threw away about 130,000 computers every day. One hundred million cellular phones are thrown out annually • Hazardous Incentives 8$ • Other developed countries involved are also doing the same, hence all the junk is sent to China, Ghana, India
- 17. Recent Trends and Actions • Central Government Initiatives in vain • Work of activist groups and increasing awareness of the situation • Non-profit organizations like Greenpeace and the Basel Action Network • Safety measures are being followed and proper disposal means are getting adopted
- 18. What can be done? • Environment Friendly raw material • Reuse judicially – gift products, reuse casings etc • Electronic items from Asia are not following proper standards • Create beautiful scrap articles similar to gardens and houses which are being made using plastic waste
- 19. Other Places of e Waste Junk
- 20. Thank You Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Prajakta Talathi GSEP13CMM031