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Principal description, town, not site[edit]

^[1] Guiyu is a town where the site(s) are located, Guiyu is not the named for the site. I'll revise the intro paragraph. Centrepull (talk) 06:52, 14 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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^ Guiyu is the largest electronic waste (e-waste) site on earth,

POV problems?[edit]

Maybe this article needs a POV check, because it a) seems very biased against the developed nations (e.g. only examples of US/first world electronics coming there? Any statistics) b) Seems very anti dumping and c) is using encyclopedic/neutral style, with numerous verbatim quotes (IMHO). All in all, this reads more like a pamphlet than an article! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.162.62.2 (talk) 01:09, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Seems a bit fanatical and too passionate about the subject. Some of the editors may have a WP:COI with this article. SpigotMap 21:03, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think it probably is biased - the tone is certainly pretty preachy - but I think it's accurate to say that the vast majority of this stuff does come from first world countries, simply because they are the places that have the necessary combination of high disposal costs and high labor costs that make it economically viable to put this stuff into containers and ship it halfway across the world. When things get scrapped in places like India or SE Asia, they will normally be dismantled very close to source. 222.248.152.52 (talk) 06:29, 17 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

"Most polluted" - nonsensical statement[edit]

"Guiyu is world's second most polluted spot, while Lake Karachay is world's first most polluted spot." This claim is somewhat ridiculous. It depends entirely on which pollutants, and the spatial scale by which the "spot" is defined. I have deleted the sentence.Jimjamjak (talk) 09:01, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Guiyu is the largest electronic waste (e-waste) site on earth,

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