Scenes from eDump, a documentary exposing what happens to imported electronic waste in China. A woman bakes a circuit board on a coal-fired stove in a pool of melted tin, so as to more easily sort out ...

Seattle-based Basel Action Network (BAN), the environmental organization that in 2001 reported on the global electronic scrap dumping ground in Guiyu, China, and the Society of Canton Nature ...

What happens when you throw away an old MacBook or phone? Most likely, it will travel to Guiyu, a town in the Guangdong province in southeast China. The town has a population of 150,000 and harbors ...

Like any good millennial, I think about my smartphone, to the extent that I do at all, in terms of what it does for me. It lets me message friends, buy stuff quickly, and amass likes. I hardly ever ...

The Chinese city of Guiyu, in Guangdong province, is famous for one reason: It is the world's largest dumping ground for electronic waste. The city, with a population of 150,000, receives some 15,000 ...

Electronics industry representatives got a chance on Tuesday to see the worst-case scenario of where some of their products are ending their life cycles. In a presentation at the International ...

Mountains of discarded remote controls litter the warehouse floor. In a dimly-lit room, women on plastic stools pry open the devices, as if shucking oysters, to retrieve the circuitry inside. In a ...

At the bottom of America’s electronics wastebasket lies the township of Guiyu. The cluster of villages in southern China’s Guangdong province is a dumping ground for mountains of scrapped computers ...

The town of Guiyu in southern China's Guangdong province is one of the world's largest electronic waste dump sites. Tens of thousands of people work in about 5,000 workshops, processing hard drives, ...

Recycling or throwing out any piece of consumer electronics has an environmental cost. Apple is among the most progressive companies dealing with the problem. But is it enough? Jay Greene, a CNET ...

Salon’s How the World Works blog writes about Michael Zhao’s eDump documentary: A lifetime of blog posts decrying the environmental toll of high-tech industrial production does not begin to approach ...