DIGITAL CEMETERIES

Where does your computer go when it dies?
You are probably not aware of the fact that the inside of your computer contains toxic as well as carcinogens substances, such as lead, phosphorus, cadmium, barium, beryllium, chromium and quicksilver.
A colored monitor contains an average of 1,8-3,6 kilos of lead that can easily leak in the environment when disposed into a dump.
A ?dead? PC is then transformed into dangerous electronic waste which requires recycling of strict technical specifications.
Nevertheless, the developed world, instead of recycling the electronic waste it produces; it chooses to export it to underdeveloped countries where it is then recycled by thousands of underpaid workers. Workers who have to choose between one dollar poisoning and starvation. While a computer is being ?cremated?, the air, the water and the soil of our planet are irreparable contaminated undermining our lives.
Each year, up to 50 millions tones of electronic waste is exported to China. There it is recycled and re-integrated as feedstock into the production chain. In China the cost of recycling such waste is thirty times lower than in Western Europe, U.S.A. and Japan. But most important, recycling procedures are not environment-friendly.

The city of Guiyu situated in Guang Dong of southern China is probably world?s biggest computers? dump. Each day thousands of computers arrive clandestinely at Guiyu where they are cut into pieces, rinsed with acid water and finally burned for gold, silver, copper, glass and plastic.

The city looks like a giant digital dump. Abject workers, men, women and under-age children, have raised new shanty towns. Most of them are Chinese emigrants who left their homes and land to work for 1,50 dollar per day at this new lucrative industry. From East to West they collect cable and wires, hammer printers, break monitors, burn circuit boards and sort out computer parts with bare hands. This primeval death procedure of the western world?s fetish-machine releases heavy metals that penetrate into the food chain and cause death. The computers? burial contaminates soil and fluvial water with cadmium, quicksilver, chromium, cobalt.

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News & Politics

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• digital
• cemeteries
• pc
• computers
• china
• Guiyu
• developed
• e-waste
• exandas

[LouisianaGatorGirl]

Pencils' cores are made of graphite; not lead.

[gavgero]

83jp you have to read more on this. All the international community is very worried about lead (and other toxic poisoning) caused by e-waste. There is an international treaty the Basel agreement. You have to do your homework first before post comments with your... opinion.

[bocskai98]

I saw this film last year in January, at Green Planet Blues, an ecological event that is held every year in Romania. Can you please tell me where can I find the complete movie?

[PacoBell]

Yeah, but what do the recyclers do with the e-waste? I'll bet they end up in the same digital dumping grounds as the rest of the "developed nations".

[Descalabro]

It's true that China is usually the place where people work on anything and do anything to earn money to live, but the fact that "the rest of the planet" takes advantage on that doesn't help at all. Also, if it wasn't China or India it would be Indonesia or any other contry with high levels of poverty, so it's evident that we can't exculpate rich countries.

[quatrogun23]

great video, whats the music that plays through it??

[dividebyN]

Corporate situations lead us to develop better products but why release them until the warehouse full of 'yesterdays' products are SOLD. If the scrap didn't end up in china and india, WHAT would they be sitting doing in the field ???? pickin their noses ??? I dont think so.....They NEED the economics of the situation. It's their OWN damn fault. If they werent twisted and corrupt their country would be successful and prosperous. IT IS THEIR OWN DAMN FAULT. DONT BLAME THE REST OF THE PLANET.

[aguswj0408]

I'm amazed how violent the guy break his computer at the beginning of the video. That's just plain stupid, why would you do that? So no one can steal it?

just stupid.

[bushisacoxucker]

GREED is about to turn the world into a big, gigantic mess.

Humanity will pay a price in the coming years when global warming and the rest of the mess we created will explode.

Sad thing is some few made trillions off the misery of the rest, and off the future of the human race.

[Ander2712]

ShameFaced

[liquidartz]

OMG is there anything that does not poisson us