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Title: Where computers go to die -- and kill Where computers go to die -- and kill Where computers go
Post by: patrito on May 18, 2006, 11:42:31 PM

Where computers go to die -- and kill

salon.com -- More than 50 percent of our recycled computers are shipped overseas, where their toxic components are polluting poor communities. Meanwhile, U.S. laws are a mess, and industry and Congress are resisting efforts to stem "the effluent of the affluent.". See the complete story here. http://salon.com/news/feature/2006/04/10/ewaste/index_np.html