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Circuit Boards Roasting on an Open Fire
Dumped Electronics Poisoning Poor in Asia |
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25 Aug 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Circuit Boards Roasting on an Open Fire Dumped Electronics Poisoning Poor in Asia Computers and other electronics discarded in the West frequently end up in poor villages in China and India, where they are stripped for residues of valuable metals in primitive procedures that poison local communities. Enviro activists report that Chinese villagers cook circuit boards over open charcoal burners to s ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, green living, politics, recycling (all these topics) |
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