It takes no genius to guess that China is sacrificing their environment for [mere] economic growth. In effect they are sacrificing the population that's living around that environment too. Every single day it is getting worse and I believe there's a gigantic proportion of serious environment damage being done and tolerated in China daily.
It's always like this in third world countries. The big companies that invested their money are partly to be blamed. They knew about the weak environmental regulations in China and knew they could get away with destroying the environment unlike in more developed countries. The other part to be blamed is the ignorance of the Chinese government on the condition of the environment and the effect on the well being of the their people.
All for money!!!! LAME and stupid imo.
@UnderseaLcpl that's some damn fine post/comment
To be fair we the end consumers are partly to be blamed too. Maybe not as severe as the Chinese government and foreign companies operating in China but end consumers are buying ridiculously cheap China made products with no question asked, without caring where those cuts are coming from when some percentage even significant portion of which may have come from the nonexistence of waste processing.
How about a green manufacturing certification/ labeling?