Reuters technology: China's e-waste capital chokes on old computers

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GUIYU, China (Reuters) - Guiyu is a modern day gold rush town. But instead of panning for gold in babbling streams, workers shift through piles of broken old computer parts in acrid smelling shacks, smelting down parts with crude equipment to extract valuable metals like gold and copper. http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/technologyNews?i=9jOwSN</img> (http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/technologyNews?a=9jOwSN)
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