Economics of e-waste in China

From Greenpeace:

Many of the locals have moved out of their traditional single story homes into newly built three and four storey buildings where the ground floor is reserved as a scrap-sorting workshop. Now they employ migrant workers to risk their health in this toxic business.

People's physical health is being devastated by our laziness in cleaning up our own crap. Shops that properly dispose -- versus just scavenging -- of e-waste tend to charge a fee. Ask about the end of the process. We need to lean on authorities to provide a management process or pressure industry to do it.