Transcript of Amy Zader Program for Teaching East Asia China: Environmental Issues and Challenges Summer...
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- Amy Zader Program for Teaching East Asia China: Environmental
Issues and Challenges Summer Institute
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- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jGBZz O5CDU
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- See Shapiro (2012) Chapter 6, Environmental Justice and the
Displacement of Environmental Harm Examples of Environmental
Injustice: Love Canal Japan nuclear power plants
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- Comes from TVs, cellphones, computers, printers, batteries,
etc. Each made up of hundreds of materials and metals Makes up
nearly 5% of all solid waste, nearly the same as plastic 80% of US
e-waste sent to be recycled actually gets illegally exported
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- Once a rice village in southern China 1990s: began to see the
economic benefits of accepting imported e-waste 2001: First
received attention for e-waste related pollution By 2005/2006 the
problem had continued: 21 villages handling E-waste 80% of E-waste
was imported to China Increasingly waste is coming from within
China
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http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1870162_1822148,00.html
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- DIOXINS chemical components formed during combustion; collect
in oil and sediment HEAVY METALS contaminates soil and water (lead,
zinc, iron, cadmium, copper, mercury, arsenic, etc.)
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- 88% of children suffer from lead poisoning High rates of
miscarriage Long-term exposure to heavy metals is carcinogenic
Damage to central and endocrine systems
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- Exporting Harm, Basel Action Network, 2001 Toxic Tea Party,
Greenpeace, 2007
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- 2000: illegal to import e-waste into China Has a dedicated
policy and legislative mechanisms in place to deal with e waste BUT
has a poor record of implementation; corruption and loopholes
exist
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- No legally enforceable federal policies or standards US has not
ratified the Basel Convention US government does not keep track of
e- waste exports Case of Denver electronics
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- http://www.greenpeace.org/internationa
l/en/campaigns/climate-change/cool-
it/Campaign-analysis/Guide-to-Greener- Electronics/ Industrial
Ecology: material and energy flows through industrial systems
Circular Economy
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- Poverty vs. Poison? National and international attention on
Guiyu has forced officials to clean it up If not Guiyu, where will
e-waste go?