City of electronic trash

The Chinese city of Guiyu is not distinguished by ancient beauties and picturesque landscapes that attract tourists, it is used to process old equipment. This is precisely what more than 5 thousand companies doing business in the city are doing. For a year they are able to process about 700 tons of various electronics. Several tens of thousands of people work in this area.

They extract metals from the used electrical engineering, and then again put them into production. So, the employee in this frame heats the electronic board to extract the necessary microcircuit from it.

As in many enterprises, waste from processing is simply dumped into the city river.

Most products - about 80 percent - come for processing from other countries.

Using Guillau and its inhabitants is quite profitable, since in developed countries workers would have been much more expensive for processing companies. Here, just like in other similar cities, you can save a lot.

As for the norms and working conditions, here they are far from ideal.

The annual revenue from electronics processing in Guillau is approximately $ 75 million.

In addition, electronic circuit boards have some gold and silver.

Ecology in this place suffers greatly, adults and children have to live in conditions of lead pollution. The level of toxic substances contained in the environment of the city is one of the highest in the world.