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| Foxconn in China |
Most are made or assembled in China, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Taiwan.
Where are used computers sold?
The biggest used PC buyers are contract manufacturers, usually subcontractors to Foxconn, Wistron, Proview, BenQ etc. Those factories are in turn contract manufacturers for companies like Dell, Sony, HP. The names on the computer don't tell you where they are made. (Lenovo is a Chinese factory which was making all the IBM laptops... IBM and Lenovo finally cut a deal a few years ago to transfer ownership, and credit, to Lenovo).
Why are there so many junk computers in places like Guiyu, China?
There are four reasons. First, China is rapidly growing. There are about 400,000 employees just at one factory (Foxconn in Shenzhen), which isn't far from either Hong Kong or Guiyu (two extremes in living standards in a very large nation). Foxconn employees alone generate enough "e-waste" to keep Guiyu busy, without any imports. And Hong Kong is a city of 7 million, which could be producing 30 million pounds of "ewaste" a year without importing anything.
