I read an article on CNN about recycling old technology. I was shocked to read that everything from televisions to cellphones are shipped to China, Nigeria and India. Where they use hammers and blow torches to extract the metal from our techno trash, polluting our environment with deadly chemicals.
Many activists believe the answer lies in requiring electronics makers to take back and recycle their own products. Such laws would encourage manufacturers to make products that are easier to recycle and contain fewer dangerous chemicals, they say.
Eight states, including five this year, have passed such laws, and companies such as Apple, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Sony now take back their products at no charge. Some require consumers to mail in their old gear, while others have drop-off centers. HP says it also now designs its equipment with fewer toxic materials and has made it easier to recycle.
Jim Puckett of the Basel Action Network says it well, “it is being recycled, but it’s being recycled in the most horrific way you can imagine.” Then he says, “We’re preserving our own environment, but contaminating the rest of the world.”
Go check out this article, it isn’t just for those who are die hard environmentalists.
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