I love watching crime TV series. One of my favourite crime TV series is CSI: NY. I like how the team deduce to the solution, I like the settings that make the series to look so real, I like the actors and actresses, etc. Thanks to CSI: NY that I and my husband could get a research topic regarding our concern in environmental issues and presented the research in an international conference in Thailand in year 2010.
Anyway, in one of the series titled “Green Piece”, the team in CSI: NY solved a mystery in related with an environmental issue. I still remember vividly that the police office (on the series, of course!) mentioned a “city” in China called Guiyu. Out of curiosity, I browsed the information about Guiyu and was shocked to read the facts about that “city”. Guiyu is actually an agglomerate of four villages in Guangdong Province and is the largest electronic waste in China, and maybe also in the world. One of the heartbreaking facts about Guiyu is that the e-waste in that particular area has detrimental effects to the people who live there (1). Until recently, most of the e-waste in Guiyu come from overseas, but the amount of domestic e-waste is on the rise (2). How little do we know of the effects of our conspicuous consumption to other people in the different part of the world!
