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OK some tiny slither of good news: @BBC_Future found the supply chains articles I wrote for them that had ironically been wiped from the internet #infinite detail style. A thread for those that might not have read them:
First up: the week I spent on a massive container ship https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150209-the-network-that-runs-the-world
Then a visit to Yiwu, the epicenter of China's plastic production and the city that makes most of the world's Christmas decorations https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20141218-the-hidden-home-of-christmas
Finally, the toxic lake in Inner Mongolia that's the result of rare earth mining and processing used to make magnets and tech gadgets https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150402-the-worst-place-on-earth
Bonus story from the same trip: I wrote about visiting TV and component factories in Shenzhen https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ypw8ww/beyond-foxconn-inside-shenzhen-the-worlds-gadget-factory
