The e-waste land (guardian.co.uk) -- "Around 100,000 men, women and children in Guiyu make $1.50 (94p) a day, breaking discarded computers and other electronic goods - mainly American, but also from the UK - into component materials of steel, aluminium, copper, plastic and gold. This is the gloomy underside of our glorious technology and the voracious rate at which we consume it."
(Mac comments: New technolgy, same old problems. )