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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 02 2013 @ 04:48 PM EDT |
The danger is not so much in stirring vats by hand, but the Chinese
observe that no immediate harm comes to those stirring, thus they
assume the material can do no harm in fields or rivers. Growing food
is peasant's work, and peasants are still regarded as a lower social class.
The needs of the city have preceded the needs of the peasants for
3000 years. It'll take a while to grow out of that attitude.
Sorting plastics by hand with skilled labor is fast and accurate.
Machines that perform as well are still too expensive for the
economics of recycling. The alternative is to put the material to landfill.
There's a dichotomy here. Greenpeace wants to make a distinction,
>> there is a specific ban on electronic waste being transferred
>> from developed countries like the United States to countries
>> like China and Vietnam.
implying that China is not a developed country. Perhaps less so than
the US, yet it is from China that most of this material is sourced in
its assembled working condition. Why should it not return there?
This not a Chinese problem as portrayed, it is a global problem.
What is the US, the world's largest consumer of e-gadgets, doing
about the problem of its own e-waste?
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