Scenes from eDump, a documentary exposing what happens to imported electronic waste in China. A woman bakes a circuit board on a coal-fired stove in a pool of melted tin, so as to more easily sort out ...

This story was first published on Nov. 9, 2008. It was updated on Aug. 27, 2009. 60 Minutes is going to take you to one of the most toxic places on Earth -- a place that government officials and ...

Electronics industry representatives got a chance on Tuesday to see the worst-case scenario of where some of their products are ending their life cycles. In a presentation at the International ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The Chinese city of Guiyu, in Guangdong province, is famous for one reason: It is the world's largest dumping ground for electronic waste. The ...

Yang Linxuan grew up amid the choking fumes and mechanical clatter of electronic appliances being broken down for scrap. He was born 22 years ago in the village of Jiaan in east Guangdong’s Guiyu ...

Did you ever wonder what happens to your old laptop or cellphone when you throw it away? Chances are some of your old electronic junk will end up in China. According to a recent United Nations report, ...

Mountains of discarded remote controls litter the warehouse floor. In a dimly-lit room, women on plastic stools pry open the devices, as if shucking oysters, to retrieve the circuitry inside. In a ...

Guiyu, China breaks down much of the world’s discarded electronics, slowly poisoning itself in the processPhotographs by Chien-min Chung / Reportage by Getty The city of Guiyu is home to 5,500 ...

At the bottom of America’s electronics wastebasket lies the township of Guiyu. The cluster of villages in southern China’s Guangdong province is a dumping ground for mountains of scrapped computers ...

Salon’s How the World Works blog writes about Michael Zhao’s eDump documentary: A lifetime of blog posts decrying the environmental toll of high-tech industrial production does not begin to approach ...