The E-Waste Stream in the World-System
Journal Title: Journal of Globalization Studies - Year 2012, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
Globalization and sustainability are contradictory tendencies in the current world-system. Consider the fact that transnational corporations transfer some of the core's wastes to the peripheral zones of the world-system. Such exports reduce sustainability and put humans and the environment in recipient countries at substantial risk. The specific case of e-waste exports to Guiyu, China is discussed. The discussion proceeds in several steps. The nature of the e-waste trade is first examined. Political-economic forces that have in-creased e-waste trafficking to China are outlined. The extent to which this trade has negative health, environmental, and social consequences are out-lined and the neo-liberal contention that such exports are economically beneficial to the core and periphery is critically examined. Policies proposed as solutions to the problem are critically reviewed.
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R. Scott FREY
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