Title: Responsible Recycling vs Global Dumping – Electronics TakeBack Coalition
Headings: Responsible Recycling vs Global Dumping
Responsible Recycling vs Global Dumping
Responsible recycling
Global e-Waste Dumping
Primitive Processing Contaminates Workers, Residents
Exporting Harm: The High Tech Trashing of Asia
How much e-waste do we export each year?
Federal GAO Report Finds E-Waste Exports Handled Unsafely
CNN Report: “China: The electronic wastebasket of the world”

Content: Bashing open cathode ray tubes with hammers, exposing the toxic phosphor dust inside. Cooking circuit boards in woks over open fires to melt the lead solder, breathing in toxic lead fumes. Burning wires in open piles to melt away the plastics (to get at the copper inside). Burning the plastic casings, creating dioxins and furans – some of the most poisonous fumes you can breathe. Throwing the unwanted (but very hazardous) leaded glass into former irrigation ditches
Dumping pure acids and dissolved heavy metals directly into their rivers. These horrific working conditions plus weak labor standards in China and many of the other developing countries where e-waste is sent, mean that women and children are often directly exposed to lead and other hazardous materials. Exporting Harm: The High Tech Trashing of Asia
This is a pile of circuit boards next to a river where circuit boards were first treated with acid to remove metals (the acids flowing into the river) and burned openly. Massive amounts of dumping of imported computer waste takes place along the riverways. Guiyu, China.