How our lack of efficient electronics-disposal options has turned one town into a wasteland.
Slate, Sofya Levina, 23 September 2015: What happens when you throw away an old MacBook or phone? Most likely, it will travel to Guiyu, a town in the Guangdong province in southeast China. The town has a population of 150,000 and harbors millions of pounds of discarded e-waste like computers, cellphones, and hard drives...read on.
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| A polluted river flows past a workshop that is used for recycling electronic waste in the township of Guiyu, China, June 10, 2015 |
