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Make a great Fortune from E-waste? Don’t go the wrong way!
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In September, 2015, a 45-year-old man (Family name: Cao) from a town of Daye city, China collected 30 tons of waste circuit boards in Jiangsu province and transported them to his hometown by a truck he rented.
Cao thought that he would make a big fortune if he could be able to get the copper contained in the circuit boards out and sell them to the Copper Processing Plant. Later,finding his nephew and his nephew’s friend as the helpers, Cao managed to move the 30 tons of circuit boards to an open place near a forestry center in his hometown and hid them away.
On October 11, the three men came to the forestry center, worked separately to douse the large piles of circuit boards with diesel and lit them on fire. As the circuit boards were not burned easily, seven or eight days later, they still haven’t been burned thoroughly. However, the pungent odors aroused the attention of the villagers living nearby. On October 19, the villagers called the police after discovering this situation.
The policemen found a large lump of scorched residues with white and black smoke on the site. Cao and his two helpers were detained for their illegal disposal of hazardous waste causing environmental pollution. Cao discovered “treasure” in waste circuit boards, but he didn’t try to use proper ways to get the “treasure”.
As a matter of facts, a lot of people have got rich by extracting copper and other precious metals from waste circuit boards. Our company (www.zygreenmachine.com) also saw the broad prospect of old circuit boards recycling and the reuse of other E-wastes. We researched and developed a special equipment for dismantling and separating the components on the circuit boards, which is not only environmentally friendly, but greatly realizes the purpose of E-waste recycling and reuse. With the growing of electronic products, more and more E-wastes will be generated, we hope that E-waste will not become a curse to our planet, instead, we try to make the recovery of e-waste become part of a sustainable economy.
Post comment Comment (7 replies)
- Reply ada23
- that guy has the right idea but deals with improper way. Crazy guy hasn't he thought potential hazard he may lead to?
- Reply edemon
- Many Chinese don't know our law system and they crime but don't know it ridiculously. It is necessary to make everyone realize right and responsibility, what we can do and what we are not supposed to do. The man would never forget the lesson.
- Reply sunnyv
- A mixture of greed, ignorance and irresponsibility. He is so industrious to be try to extract copper from electronic waste, he should know the rules to be followed. Perhaps choose to be selectively ignorant.
- Reply teadrinking
- We see such cases quite often, since there are people, there is greed in human beings. Only if we can deal it well, can we build a good surroundings. But, we are more likely to fail in this situation when it comes to pursuit of profit.
- Reply jaylinxuxun
- there is a famous village in my hometown 汕头， the village call "Shuishi" , the whole village is doing the recycles job from the waste circuit board. it causes a lot of pollution because they burn the waste circuit board to extract the copper and other precious metals. The salary for each worker doing this job is quick high,even the worker clearly know that the job itself does harm to their healthy, they are still not gonna to leave this industry because going for other job, it can not earn such money for them. It is sad, but people sacrifice something for the money, they may need the affluent money to support their family, their children need to get education, family daily spending etc... it all required of huge money ... too sad... but they are regarded the respects....
- Reply carolyayayaya
- Yeah, I know "Guiyu" town, also in Shantou, which is called the Graveyard of Electronic Wastes. About 90% children there are suffering from lead poisoning. The water is greatly polluted, and people living there have to buy water from other places. It's really painful.
jaylinxuxun: there is a famous village in my hometown 汕头， the village call "Shuishi" , the whole village is doing the recycles job from the waste cir ...
E-waste recycling is really a big industry. The local government should do something to regulate this industry and help the residents to live a healthy life.
