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In China anything of this ilk is stripped for metal. The cases would have been the first thing to go. Perhaps the boards would have been melted for copper, but
by contingencies 4y ago
In China anything of this ilk is stripped for metal. The cases would have been the first thing to go. Perhaps the boards would have been melted for copper, but now perhaps this is less profitable and/or more difficult to achieve with increasing environmental enforcement operations in developed coastal provinces.
- thenthenthen 4y agoThe Basel Action Network has some videos documenting this practice [0]. Now there is an import ban on e waste and plastic in China and indeed increased enforcement. This of course does not make the problem disappear. [0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L00YUD9d5ug https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L00YUD9d5ug