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August 2007

China’s electronic exports are returning to the mainland as toxic e-waste

A constant stream of high-tech exports are driving China’s record trade surplus. But a reverse flow of high-tech trash, dumping obsolete electronics in the very cities that manufactures them, is plaguing the mainland.

Now it turns out that China’s red-hot manufacturing engine could hold the key to the mounting e-waste problem.

A United Nations group, StEP – “Solving the E-waste Problem” – has a project that turns the tables on big ...

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