Elizabeth Dalziel

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CHINA TECNO TRASH HEAP

A poluted water stream runs by homes in an area where much of the world's electronic waste _ from cell phone chargers to mainframe computers _ ends up in Guiyu and other small towns like it in eastern China, Thursday March 16, 2006. Workers, many of them poorly paid migrants strip, smash and melt down circuit boards, mainly to extract the copper and other precious metals inside. The business has created massive pollution from leaded glass and other toxic materials. A water sample taken from the site revealed lead levels 2,400 times higher than the World Health Organization's limit for drinking water.

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CHINA E-WASTE 05
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Elizabeth Dalziel
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CHINA E-WASTE
A poluted water stream runs by homes in an area where much of the world's electronic waste _ from cell phone chargers to mainframe computers _ ends up in Guiyu and other small towns like it in eastern China, Thursday March 16, 2006. Workers, many of them poorly paid migrants strip, smash and melt down circuit boards, mainly to extract the copper and other precious metals inside. The business has created massive pollution from leaded glass and other toxic materials. A water sample taken from the site revealed lead levels 2,400 times higher than the World Health Organization's limit for drinking water.