Plastic, poverty and pollution in China’s recycling dead zone
Chinese workers sort out vast quantities of obsolete electronics material shipped in from the United States, Europe and Japan and piled in mountains of waste in the city of Giuyu, Southern China on December 2006. Even as entire communities, including children, earn their livelihoods by scavenging metals, glass and plastic from the dumps, the technological garbage is poisoning the water and soil and raising serious health concerns. The waste is located at the town exit. Computers’ rests are burning near the river. Inhabitants try to find some rest. Photo by Patrick Durand/ABACAPRESS.COM