This remarkable and disturbing video documents the end-of-life destinations of "recycled" electronic waste in China. It reveals the environmental and occupational hazards that these citizens encounter on a daily basis and conveys why it is essential that we reduce toxicity and establish producer responsibility as a management technique in the U.S. It was produced by the Basel Action Network (BAN), an international network of activists seeking to put an end to economically-motivated toxic waste export and dumping - particularly hazardous waste exports from rich industrialized countries to poorer, less-industrialized countries.
A 51 page report with the same name can be downloaded off of http://www.ban.org/
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Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia
Posted: September 11, 2019 by MAEE Administration
Category: Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
This remarkable and disturbing video documents the end-of-life destinations of "recycled" electronic waste in China. It reveals the environmental and occupational hazards that these citizens encounter on a daily basis and conveys why it is essential that we reduce toxicity and establish producer responsibility as a management technique in the U.S. It was produced by the Basel Action Network (BAN), an international network of activists seeking to put an end to economically-motivated toxic waste export and dumping - particularly hazardous waste exports from rich industrialized countries to poorer, less-industrialized countries.
A 51 page report with the same name can be downloaded off of http://www.ban.org/