Thursday, December 27, 2007

Where Leaded Toys Die

So those toys we didn't buy, or returned, had to go somewhere:

Chinese town where old presents go to die

By Richard Spencer in Guiyu
27/12/2007
The Chinese town of Guiyu is the graveyard of Christmas past.
It is where presents - game consoles, laptops, mobile phones - come to die.
It is also where they are reborn. In this giant scrap-yard, so dangerously polluted that its children are being clinically poisoned, the electronic objects of desire, a million tons of them a year, are broken apart, melted down, and washed in acid to be recycled into a new flood of imports for Christmas future.

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