Heavy Metal

For more then twenty years tons and tons of metallic and electronic waste from all around the world has been transported to a Chinese town called Fengjang in the south of Shanghai Around 50000 migrant workers have formed a real army to dismantle these metallic wastes These green soldiers decompose cut split and recycle with the most rudimentary means almost 2 million tons of garbage every year To remain and assume the minimum materials that is theirs they work hard bear an incredible precariousness and put in danger their own health due to the simply unacceptable working conditions As the recognizable heaps of metal continue to pile up they provide a deeply moving image of a worldwide consumer society