Guiyu

guiyu guīyú guìyú Guìyǔ English thumb|Map including zh 貴嶼墟 Kuei-hsü-hsü (AMS, 1954) 10552568 Etymology From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 貴嶼 Guìyǔ. Pronunciation en /ɡweɪˈjuː/ gwā′yü′ en Gui yu Proper noun en town dist/Chaoyang prefecture-level city/Shantou p/Guangdong c/China. en 1996 Charles S. Gitomer Potato and Sweetpotato in China: Systems, Constraints, and Potential https://books.google.com/books?id=Zqz7gnJ7V3cC Lima, Peru w:International Potato Center 92-9060-183-3 36120278 56 In Guiyu Township, Chaoyang County, Guangdong, the average yield for potato is 9.75 t/ha and for winter sweetpotato yield is about 17.25 t/ha. en 2002 Jim Puckett Mary Ryan Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDSWGV3jGek w:Basel Action Network 5:35 62735185 Following up news articles and e-mails from mainland China, BAN was directed to an e-waste processing area known as Guiyu on the Longdong River near the city of Shantou in the northeast [of] Guangdong Province, four hours by car from Hong Kong. In the course of three intensive days in and around Guiyu's four villages, the small investigative team witnessed firsthand what passes for recycling of e-waste in Asia. en February 24, 2003 Peter S. Goodman Peter S. Goodman China Serves As Dump Site For Computers https://web.archive.org/web/20231001073223/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/02/24/china-serves-as-dump-site-for-computers/2d89310d-a920-49cf-8752-5660334e3526/ 01 October 2023 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/02/24/china-serves-as-dump-site-for-computers/2d89310d-a920-49cf-8752-5660334e3526/ On a recent morning in Guiyu, in Guangdong province, hundreds of men squatted in concrete-block sheds, sifting through computers and printers and breaking them into scrap with their bare hands. en January 12, 2008 Jon Mooallem Jon Mooallem The risk-filled afterlife https://web.archive.org/web/20230314192321/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/business/worldbusiness/11iht-wbphones.1.9147834.html 14 March 2023 https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/business/worldbusiness/11iht-wbphones.1.9147834.html International Business The residents of Guiyu, including children, make their living sorting, dismantling and burning computer parts or bathing them in nitric and hydrochloric acids to recover precious metals. en May 30, 2013 w:Ivan Watson China: The electronic wastebasket of the world https://web.archive.org/web/20130531044211/https://www.cnn.com/2013/05/30/world/asia/china-electronic-waste-e-waste/index.html 31 May 2013 w:CNN On seemingly every street, laborers sit on the pavement outside workshops ripping out the guts of household appliances with hammers and drills. The roads in Guiyu are lined with bundles of plastic, wires, cables and other garbage. en JANUARY 23, 2018 David Stanway China trash town's cleanup bolstered by import ban https://web.archive.org/web/20191224211908/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-environment-waste-insight-idUSKBN1FD043 December 24, 2019 w:Reuters GUIYU, China (Reuters) - The dizzying stench of burning plastic still drifts through the alleys, workshops and warehouses of Guiyu, the southern Chinese town that has long symbolized China’s role as the main recycler of the world’s waste.[...]In the 2000s, Guiyu became a symbol of the environmental devastation caused by recycling hazardous waste with little regulation after being singled out by groups like Greenpeace and featuring in a string of international media reports. Trash is still the mainstay of Guiyu’s economy, but hundreds of recycling businesses have been consolidated or shut completely in recent years and authorities are now cracking down on smuggled waste, further starving small and polluting businesses of supplies. “Although the dismantling of old electronics is the leading industry in Guiyu, we should say it was more a profession than an industry,” said Zheng Jinxiong, vice chairman of a government commission tasked with running the recycling industry park, set up on the edge of town. en 02/14/2018 Harald Franzen China cleans up electronic recycling w:Deutsche Welle https://web.archive.org/web/20180215185102/https://www.dw.com/en/china-cleans-up-electronic-recycling/g-42569216 February 15, 2018 https://www.dw.com/en/china-cleans-up-electronic-recycling/g-42569216 Environment For a long time, Guiyu in China was considered the world's biggest electronic trash dumping ground. en 09 March 2021 Yi-Ling Liu Sci-Fi Writer or Prophet? The Hyperreal Life of Chen Qiufan Chen Qiufan https://web.archive.org/web/20210309150722/https://www.wired.com/story/science-fiction-writer-china-chen-qiufan/ 09 March 2021 w:Wired.com Before writing his debut novel, The Waste Tide The Waste Tide, a 2013 eco-thriller about a workers’ uprising in a futuristic dump called Silicon Isle, Chen spent time in the southeastern city of Guiyu, one of the world’s largest dumping grounds for electronic waste, observing migrant workers toil in the toxin-laden trash. en Translations a town of Guangdong Chinese: Cantonese: yue 貴嶼 Mandarin: cmn 貴嶼 Guìyǔ Further reading Guiyu