摘要
在全球化的背景下,最初的制造和最终的处理都被移到了发展中国家。而电子废物的“自由贸易”正迫使世界上贫困的一群人做出一个艰难的选择——继续贫穷,抑或中毒。
Old Wang, a guy from the NortheastChina, now does recycling by riding a tri-cycle through the lanes around the sameblocks in Beijing day by day. He adds suchnew ware-crying as 'Buying old TV sets andold computers!' to 'Buying useless books,papers and magazines!', which was the tra-ditional crying you would hear from thosewho do recycling. When you talk to him withsuch 'jargons' as 'Pentium' and 'Celeron',however, he would seem absent-minded. Old Wang and other immigrants do-ing recycling around the communities inBeijing, take computers as the same goodsas TV sets. They don't think there are differ-ences between them. But they often wish tocollect more'big appliances',such as oldcomputers,because they can be used toexchange for more money In the process of recycling,electronicwaste turns out to be a source for living.even for making a wealth、It has broughtabout an 'industry chain' with clear labordivision-collecting, selling, disman-tling and transportation... The chain hasnot attracted enough atten nomy.eanwhile, it has been growing in a half-underground 'free trade' way, becausethere is no effective regulation. In the context of globalization, bothearly production steps, such asmanufacturing, and disposition at the endare transferred to developing countries. Andthe 'free trade' of electronic waste is forc-ing a choice on some poor groups in theworld: poor or poisoned.
