Chinkuli,+Shakuzelah

Subject: Toxic E-waste in Hong Kong by Zelah Chinkuli

Supposed recycling companies in The United States are actually shipping there toxic waste to developing cities and countries. One of the cities that bears the worst of the burden is Hong Kong, the slums of Hong Kong have the literally turned into a burning wasteland. Desperate citizens, who have no other alternative, burn the highly toxic electronic trash for valuable minerals. Inside your computers, cell phones, electronics, are some of the most poisonous toxins in existence, that means the one in front of you, which you are looking at. Now naturally this is illegal, but money is money, third world countries and desperate people need it. The items are smuggled to Hong Kong where it is all dumped, miles and miles of it, on fire some times, to the point where it appears to be a city. The water is undrinkable and the air is nearly to toxic to breathe. The miscarriage rate is 6 times higher, and burns cover the hands of the workers. "Recycling" companies do it because it's easy and cheap and the Hong Kong government collaborates with criminals to harbor it because its profitable. And the blood of children is saturated with lead from playing in the toxic waters of Hong Kong...

My opinion? Well the language used in the one I would like to tell you would get me kicked off this site, so instead we'll have to settle for this... First and foremost, this is the worst thing ever, it's despicable atrocious, horrid, etc. etc. However though revolted I can't say I'm surprised basically everyone in power is corrupt in some way, hence the price of success and progress, right? Wrong! The simple fact is almost every large corporation in existence is guilty of murder, torture, and mutilation. "Oh, they're indirectly doing it." Don't believe any of that if I pay someone to go torture and murder an innocent I'm just as if no more guilty than the person who actually did it. It's despicable, they do it in the name of profit or the advancement of technology, but if you can do this and sleep at night you've "indirectly" forfeited of your humanity. We don't need more advanced technology to help these people, we need to stop using technology to kill them in the first place.

Here are the links to where i got my information: [] []Also heres a link to the video on e-waste in Hong Kong: []

I found cbsnews.com the most informative greenpeace gave basically the same info and there was significantly less of it, the emphasis being mainly on protesting it. Cbsnews went into depth and even included a video from 60 Minutes about it.