Öko-Institut from Germany just published a study on “Key Social Impacts of Electronics Production and WEEE-Recycling in ChinaThe study was originally finished in June last year, but was not published until presented to the Chinese…
Of the different e-waste processing activities carried out in Guiyu, China, the recycling of printed circuit boards is probably the most important input of heavy metals to the surface environment. The recycling procedure involves melting…
Thousands of workers protest over increased cost of factory meals Several thousand workers at Alco Holdings Limited, a Hong Kong-owned electronics factory in Dongguan, in Guangdong province, went on strike and protested outside the factory…
SACOM report: labour conditions and outsourcing in electronics industry.Poor labour conditions contradict the self-proclaimed clean and progressive image of the information industry. Inside the spacious and modern-looking factory buildings, production sites and systems are no…
Though Chinese labor law prohibits the employment of children under the age of 16, child labor is a standard practice at Yonghong Electronics. SACOM interviewed 25 workers from Yonghong, including 7 underage workers. All the…
makeITfair reveals: Electronics brands do nothing to improve conditions related to the metals they useMetal prices are booming, but many of the mine workers in African countries have not noticed this, as revealed in a…
Through a jugglery of words in the draft legislation on waste, the Indian Government may pave the way for officially opening floodgates for the dumping of world’s hazardous waste in the name of recycling and…
President Bush vetoed a spending bill this week that would have funded a $3.2 million cancer- rate study of IBM workers in Endicott. Read more…
While there are no precise figures, activists estimate that 50 to 80 percent of the 300,000 to 400,000 tons of electronics collected for recycling in the U.S. each year ends up overseas. Workers in countries…
For five years, environmentalists and the news media have publicized the danger to Chinese workers who dismantle much of the world’s junked electronics. Yet a visit to this south-eastern Chinese town regarded as the heartland…