Mid-December, Jim Puckett, Executive Director of BAN and Lai Yun, Founder and Executive Director of the Society of Canton Nature Conservation, witnessed the recycling streets of Guiyu as a ghost-town. All operations were shuttered and only a few abandoned piles of e-waste left behind in some yards and waysides. A town in southern China that's known as one of the world's most notorious destinations for e-scrap is undergoing a government-mandated makeover. Basel Action Network applauds clean-up efforts at Guiyu, but warns of new destinations of the e-waste streams.

Mid-December, Jim Puckett, Executive Director of BAN and Lai Yun, Founder and Executive Director of the Society of Canton Nature Conservation, witnessed the recycling streets of Guiyu as a ghost-town. All operations were shuttered and only a few abandoned piles of e-waste left behind in some yards and waysides. A town in southern China that's known as one of the world's most notorious destinations for e-scrap is undergoing a government-mandated makeover. Basel Action Network applauds clean-up efforts at Guiyu, but warns of new destinations of the e-waste streams.

 

Read BAN's news item on the disapperance of Guiyu.

Read BAN's press release.

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