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Thailand afflicted by mountains of electronic waste
1st July 2018
Unusual story this, with the waste from electronic items such as computers increasingly ending up in other parts of South-East and East Asia, rather than China, after the latter banned waste imports.
This highlights the negative externalities associated with waste, and the fact that those externalities are generated by the consumers of these products whose relative affluence allows them to impose the external cost on the developing world, where this can adversely affect developmental outcomes and is also patently unfair.
I snuck into one of Thailand's illegal electronic waste factories for this piece. It was the most frightening monument to human excess I have ever seen https://t.co/21nOBiAkb6
— Hannah Ellis-Petersen (@HannahEP) June 29, 2018
Thailand is becoming the new dumping ground for the world’s illegal electronic waste #ewaste https://t.co/36WBJImMjY
— Sky News (@SkyNews) July 1, 2018
"While the word recycling implies doing good for the planet, in fact most of the e-waste recycling plants involve a dirty and toxic process to extract lead and copper that does huge amounts of environmental damage."https://t.co/rqj2HULfbO
— Janine Berg (@janinemberg) June 29, 2018
Thailand has become a hub of transboundary electronic waste transport due to its weak laws and poor e-waste management regime.
— Richard Barrow (@RichardBarrow) June 10, 2018
♦️ E-waste an aggravating heap of a toxic problem https://t.co/T2CVuxynUj #Thailand pic.twitter.com/40N85kNO8e
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