TOXICS
2/25/2002
Report says up to 80 percent of U.S. computers and electronics collected for recycling is sent to Asia, where it threatens worker health and the environment.
Source
Basel Action Network, "High-Tech Toxic Trash from USA Found to Be Flooding Asia," press release (Seattle: 25 February 2002).
Links
Basel Action Network
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes
Greenpeace International: Toxics Campaign
Silicon Valley Toxic Coalition
Zero Waste America: Global Waste Trade
Worldwatch Links
Online Feature: Consumption
State of the World 2000 - Chapter 7: Harnessing Information Technologies for the Environment
World Watch Magazine: Virtual Ecology: A Brief Environmental History of Silicon Valley, Jan/Feb 1999
Worldwatch Research Library: Consumption
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