what happens to your recycled batteries?
Sathi shows another face of carbon.
Sathi is eight years old and lives in Bangladesh.
Her natural face is not this dark; the color comes from the carbon rods she and hundreds of other children extract from batteries at recycling factories.
She earns about US$3.50 a month for this work, inhaling carbon dust all the while (via WorldWatch).
Published by Ken on December 29th, 2006 tagged Systems Thinking
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January 4th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
[...] Does this mean we have to choose between the damage done to the environment by throwing our batteries out (into landfile) or recycling them at the risk of the health of child labour? Story and photo from Kauaian. [...]
January 5th, 2007 at 7:51 am
I think not. Rather it means we need to know a great deal more about precisely how our stuff is made and unmade. Who knew recycling needed some greening, too?