Guiyu (town)
Guiyu (Chinese: 贵屿; pinyin: Gùiyǔ) is a town on the South China Sea coast, infamous in the global environmentalist community for its reception of E-waste.
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[edit] Administration
Guiyu is a Town, in the district of Chaoyang, in the municipality of Shantou, in Southern China's Guangdong Province.
[edit] Electronic waste
Guiyu is the largest E-waste site on earth,[1] and was first documented fully in December 2001 by the Basel Action Network in their report and documentary film entitled Exporting Harm.[2] The health and environmental issues exposed by this report and subsequent scientific studies[3] have greatly concerned international organizations such as the Basel Action Network and later Greenpeace and the United Nations Environment Programme and the Basel Convention.
The burning off of plastics in the town has resulted in 80% of its children having dangerous levels of lead in their blood.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Johnson, Tim (April 9, 2006). "E-waste dump of the world". The Seattle Times. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002920133_ewaste09.html. Retrieved 2007-03-09.
- ^ "Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia" (pdf). Basel Action Network. February 25, 2002. http://www.ban.org/E-waste/technotrashfinalcomp.pdf.
- ^ "Scientific Articles". Basel Action Network. http://www.ban.org/main/library.html#scientific.
- ^ Monbiot, George (September 21, 2009). "From toxic waste to toxic assets, the same people always get dumped on". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/sep/21/global-fly-tipping-toxic-waste. Retrieved May 4, 2010.
