Environmental Racism

Studies have shown that not all individuals are equally exposed to pollution.Environmental racism takes international forms as well.Americans corporations often continue to produce dangerous,U.S.-banned chemicals and ship them to developing countries.Additionally the developed world has shipped large amounts of toxic waste to developing countries for less than safe disposal.For instance,experts estimates that 5o to 80 percent of electronic waste produced in the United States,including computer parts,is shipped to waste sites in developing countries,such as China and India.A t a waste site in Giugu,China,laborers with no protective clothing regularly burn plastics and circuit boards from old computers.They pour acid on electronic parts to extract silver and gold,and they smash cathode-ray tubes from computer monitors to remove lead