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more about #ewaste more comments → Segador: and a $10 fee for recycling laptops and TV monitors that is converted into a Best Buy gift card. I'm cnofused... they charge you $10, or you get a $10... more » admoseremic: If I had it my way, you could bury your old handset, and it would subsequently grow a flower of your choosing. more » GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday: And you wonder where the repair parts for your Geek Squad items will come from, eh? more » BeautifulAgony: First, I am reasonably sure the advertising was paid for and not some geurilla hack. Second, as much as I support environmental awareness, it seems th... more » rimshot515: Unfortunately, tampering with another person's property to get your point across probably isn't the best way to make the people on your side of the ar... more » Acerbus Letalis: Oh snap! more » OMG! Ponies!: If Panny really wanted some decent PR, they could underwrite the Gizmodo Gallery. At the very least, they could provide the contractors necessary to ... more » OMG! Ponies!: On the one hand, my 4 year-old giant CRT-based HDTV is 200 lbs. of greenFAIL. On the other hand, it has a lifespan of more than a decade. who am I ki... more » Hintzyboy: Yay for e-waste. In a few months, I can finally stop sorting used syringes more » thedarkhorse: yeah I saw a special on this on the CBC last week, kids were melting down motherboards with boiling acid to get at the gold solder, breathing in the f... more » Ethan Allison: This isn't a good situation for anyone working in these waste villages, but it's evidently the most lucrative one by far. If there's a better solution... more » ...: ok you're making progress giz. one more post about this in the next week and you're ready to make some sort of charity/protection/awareness group. ser... more » sbacon1999: I think this is more of our problem than China's. Yes, they're mishandling but we need to find another way to minimize our waste or recycle it here. T... more » Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: Where do you think China gets all the lead it puts into the toys it sells to American children? Duh. more » Curves: When I "recycled" my cell phone, I was led to believe it would be given to a battered womens shelter to allow women in crisis to call 911 on. I asked ... more » -
#greenyousay
Majority of US E-Waste Gets 'Recycled' in Asia, Where Recycling Is Often Non-Existent
A new report by the US Government Accountability Office is claiming that the majority of US E-Waste recycling services should reconsider dumping our 20 million plus pounds of waste on Asia, where it's cheaper but also less effective. Many of the major electronics manufacturers (Samsung, Sony, Best Buy, more) have been proudly rolling out recycling services in greater numbers over the last year or so, but the new information confirms that tons of recycled e-waste never makes it to the actual "recycling" part, at least as far as US standards go. More » -
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#gadgets
China's E-Waste Problem Poisons Children, Destroys Cities
Since the 1980s, cities like Guiyu, China, have been taking in electronic waste from other countries for dismantlement and processing. It's great for other countries, but takes a huge toll on the people managing the effort because of the "metal extraction of circuit boards" and "open dumping of waste and ash residue into open water". It's made the well water and ground water of Guiyu undrinkable, and has to be trucked in from other villages. The lead poisoning level in children is 69%. [China-Pix via Crunchgear] More »
