The irons made in China

It had been my little boom to use an iron that my host family has untill i saw the movie is called "Manufactured Landscape." by Jannifer Baichral http://www.theenvironmentalblog.org/2007/06/manufactured-landscape-must-see.html
The iron that I used was made in Mexico, but what is happening at the iron factory in China is enormous and shokking. What I learned was, basically, they make massive amount of irons at miles of factory thousands of people work for, and the products are send to other country like mostly the U.S. And also the important fact is that the gabbage that we made here in the U.S. include the iron that we used up and became old are sent back to the recycle dump in China. What a waste of things, money, time and effort plus huge environmental impact. The things that are dumpped are not even separated in what's recycleable and what not. so there are people who go there to collect recyceable things by hands. Of course, their health aren't concerned. The film shows perfectly how the Chinese workers are involved with American consumers.
Speakig of recyceable products, I think recycling is important things to do as one of solusions. But we have to keep in mind that recycling takes a lot of energy, so reduce is the best choice for less impact as long as it's impossible to completely erase components. I learned from ENVSC class that things can transform by fixation and so on, but nothing can be erased in this world.