Here’s a great article on the massive problem that e-waste presents the world and the article specifically discusses the United States involvement.
edit…here’s the link
Here’s a great article on the massive problem that e-waste presents the world and the article specifically discusses the United States involvement.
edit…here’s the link
This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 and is filed under Computers, E-Waste, Environment, Recycling. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Arclite theme by digitalnature | powered by WordPress
#1 by anon on May 7th, 2009
Quote
Europe is, as in other things, always much further ahead on this issue. Their ROHS standards prohibit all lead and other toxic metals from all electronic components and PC boards. The US has no such standard and so, like a developing country, is a dumping ground for non-ROHS compliant electronic products.