Trav­eled over to Shang­hai Scrap today (h/t Dan­wei) to a post enti­tled “Ply­wood Infer­nal”, writ­ten fol­low­ing a visit to a large fac­tory in a north­ern Chi­nese city. The author, Adam, writes: “I don’t know much about the ply­wood indus­try, and not much more about what dri­ves a young per­son from a vil­lage to a deadly fac­tory in a town with­out a future.”

Essen­tially, the man­u­fac­tur­ing processes con­tinue to use a car­cino­genic chem­i­cal in quan­ti­ties and with expo­sure to work­ers such that, if what Adam was told by other res­i­dents in this vil­lage is true, employ­ees in this fac­tory can expect they have less than three years to live before con­tract­ing a ter­mi­nal illness.

Ours is a messed up world.