Question: A unitary sovereign state in what part of the world was linked to illegal export of electronic waste?
Context: China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.  Covering approximately 9.6 e6km2 , it is the world's second-largest state by land area and third- or fourth-largest by total area.  Governed by the Communist Party of China, it exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing) and the Special Administrative Regions Hong Kong and Macau, also claiming sovereignty over Taiwan.  China is a great power and a major regional power within Asia, and has been characterized as a potential superpower. The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Forum aisbl (WEEE Forum) is a European not-for-profit association headquartered in Brussels.  The organisation was founded in April 2002 as answer to the EU legislators adoption of Directive 2002/96/EC on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE).  It represents non-profit oriented producer responsibility organisations (PRO) that manage WEEE (also referred to as electronic waste or e-waste). Indonesia is a unitary sovereign state and transcontinental country located mainly in Southeast Asia with some territories in Oceania.  Situated between the Indian and Pacific oceans, it is the world's largest island country, with more than seventeen thousand islands.  At 1,904,569 km2 , Indonesia is the world's 14th-largest country in terms of land area and world's 7th-largest country in terms of combined sea and land area.  It has an estimated population of over 260 million people and is the world's fourth most populous country, the most populous Austronesian nation, as well as the most populous Muslim-majority country. Electronic waste or e-waste in the United States refers to electronic products that have reached the end of their operable lives, and the United States is beginning to address its waste problems with regulations at a state and federal level.  Used electronics are the quickest-growing source of waste and can have serious health impacts.  The United States is the world leader in producing the most e-waste, followed closely by China; both countries domestically recycle and export e-waste.  Only recently has the United States begun to make an effort to start regulating where e-waste goes and how it is disposed of. India has emerged as fifth largest Electronic waste producer in world.  Computer devices account for nearly 70% of e-waste, with the contribution of telecom sector being 12%, medical equipment being 8%, and electric equipments being 7% of the annual e-waste production.  The Government, public sector companies, and private sector companies generate nearly 75% of electronic waste; with the contribution of individual household being only 16%.  City-wise, Mumbai tops the list in producing electronic waste, followed by New Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai.  State-wise Maharashtra ranks first in generation of electronic waste, followed by Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh.  Electronic waste account for 40% of lead and 70% of heavy metals found in landfills.  These pollutants are responsible for groundwater contamination, air pollution and soil acidification.  The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has notified E-Waste (Management) Rules, 2016.  The rules - for the first time in India - introduced Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR).  EPR stipulates for collection 30% waste in first two years and up to 70% in seven years.  According to ASSOCHAM, an industrial body in India the, Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of electronic waste is 30%.  Nearly 95% of processing of electronic waste is carried out by the unskilled informal sector. Electronics are the fastest growing trash group on the planet.  It is estimated that 41.8 million metric tonnes (Mt) of electronic waste were produced in 2014 alone.  That number is also estimated to rise to 50 million metric tonnes by 2018.  Of the 41.8 million Mt of electronic waste in 2014, three million Mt were small IT devices such as cell phones, pocket calculators, tablets, personal computers, etc.  An additional 12.8 million Mt was items such as vacuum cleaners, electric shavers, and video cameras.  Due to the increase in electronic waste being created there is also an increase in the amount batteries being thrown away.  Americans alone dispose of over three billion batteries a year.  At least 14,000 tons of those three billion batteries are rechargeable Many rechargeable devices, such as those listed above, utilize a Lithium-ion battery (LIB) as their source of power.  The issue is that electronic devices are one of the only items disposed of even if they are not broken or defective.  In the case of current technology, new is already old.  Items that become obsolete are as susceptible to being thrown as ones that are broken.  Because of this trend, more and more electronic devices, along with their batteries, are being thrown away improperly.  The goal of this page is to increase the awareness of the potential environmental effects of cobalt from lithium ion batteries. Electronic waste in Japan is a major environmental issue.  Although Japan was one of the first countries to implement an electronic waste recycling program, it is still having serious issues.  In this day and age, e-waste disposal has become of major importance due to the increasing demand for electronics on a worldwide scale.  In 2013, the Japanese government reported that roughly 550,000 tons of e-waste was collected and treated in Japan, which only equates to about 24-30% of total e-waste.  Not only does e-waste harm the environment if untreated, it also becomes a fiscal loss due to the material lost that could have been salvaged. Executive Recycling is an Englewood, Colorado-based business specializing in electronic waste recycling. " 60 Minutes" linked Executive Recycling to the illegal export of electronic waste from the Denver area to Guiyu, China.  In the report, the company also was found to have illegally offered to help an undercover investigative team to ship more than 1,500 CRT (cathode ray tube) monitors and 1,200 CRT TVs to Hong Kong for recycling purposes.  The story added that the federal government has issued a search warrant to investigate Executive Recycling's actions.  Until November 2008, Executive Recycling was partnered with Colorado's Governor's Office of Economic Development to assist in recycling pickup events. Indonesia ( or ; Indonesian: ), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Indonesian: "Republik Indonesia" ), is a unitary sovereign state and transcontinental country located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania.  Situated between the Indian and Pacific oceans, it is the world's largest island country, with more than seventeen thousand islands.  At 1,904,569 km2 , Indonesia is the world's 14th-largest country in terms of land area and world's 7th-largest country in terms of combined sea and land area.  It has an estimated population of over floor( /1e6) million people and is the world's fourth most populous country, the most populous Austronesian nation, as well as the most populous Muslim-majority country.  The world's most populous island, Java, contains more than half of the country's population. Agbogbloshie is a nickname of a commercial district on the Korle Lagoon of the Odaw River, near the center of Accra, Ghana.  Near the slum called "Old Fadama", the Agbogbloshie site became known as a destination for locally generated automobile and electronic scrap collected from across the City of Accra.  It was alleged to be at the center of a legal and illegal exportation network for the environmental dumping of electronic waste (e-waste) from industrialized nations.  Basel Action Network, a small NGO based in Seattle, has referred to Agbogbloshie as a "digital dumping ground", where they allege millions of tons of e-waste are processed each year.  However, repeated international studies have failed to confirm the allegations, which have been labelled an "e-waste hoax" by international reuse advocate WR3A.  The most exhaustive study of the trade in used electronics in Nigeria, funded by UNEP and Basel Convention, revealed that from 540 000 tons of informally processed waste electronics, 52% of the material was recovered.
Answer: East Asia