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...tech appliances, the detritus of a digital revolution going on an ocean away. Blue Dongfeng trucks with heaving loads of broken hardware dominate the roads and kick dust into the faces of the bicycle-cart drivers, their own cargo of tangled wires swaying with each turn. Atop a riverbank junk heap near the Meizhou bridge, a piece of cardboard flutters in the breeze?printed on it are keystroke instructions and the words: "WordPerfect...
...April 2000, China specifically outlawed e-waste importation. But occasional crackdowns have done little to curtail recycling, which thrives on corruption and strong market demand. According to Guiyu junk dealers, shipments often reach the mainland at Nanhai, a Guangdong port city, where they are sorted at large warehouses owned and operated by Taiwanese businessmen. From there, the goods are shipped via truck to Guiyu, where they are then re-sorted and the last round of scrapping is performed. For now, at least, e-waste meets its true and final end in the air of Guiyu's skies, the water coursing...
...hard enough to lose a parent--to snip the last invisible thread connecting a generation to the one preceding it. Now picture yourself standing in the house where you grew up, bickering with your siblings over the spoons in the junk drawer, sobbing over the Christmas ornaments or fighting over Daddy's good-luck charm...
...American convenience store, offering a wide selection of junk food, snack food and junky snack food...
...Their first production credit came with the 1992 Moods album A Feeling, followed by their first remix in 1993 of Angela Marn’s “Slippin and Slidin.” Only in 1998 did Deep Dish achieve international prominence with their critically acclaimed debut album, Junk Science. Over the past five years, Deep Dish have remixed the world’s hottest artists—everyone from Tina Turner and the Rolling Stones to Madonna and ’NSYNC. In 2001 they earned their first Grammy nomination for Remixer of the Year; their second nomination...