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Over the last 6 months, the city of Guiyu and its industry of recycling eWaste has seen a lot of coverage. First you had the report from 60 Minutes then you had the denial from local officials Regardless of which report is right though, Alex Hofford, has a new post showing readers that clearly the [...]

Last year, you may remember the 60 minutes report 60 Minutes Covers eWaste in China where they followed a container of ewaste from the US to Guiyi China. Interesting enough, according to the article Recycling Nation’s Recyclers , the 60 minutes crew may have got their facts a bit wrong: The report was amazing to [...]

In this month’s Wired magazine, Brian Chen has put together the article Where Gadgets Go to Die: Facility Strips, Rips and Recycles.  It is a fantastic article that shows the process by which electronic consumer items make their way through one of the SIMS Recycling Solutions centers. The toured center is a cavernous warehouse that [...]

h/t to CLEB for reminding me I needed to write up a post on the new e-waste announcement that came out of Beijing last week. Much like banning plastic bags, this is a problem that needed to be addressed years ago, and it is through policies that the foundation to cleaning up this problem will [...]