E waste may be killing our children
E waste may be killing our children
A study by Ohio university said it had tracked chemicals such as lead from circuit boards in kid’s trinkets which had come from recycled computer waste shipped to China where it was stripped of heavy metals such as lead and other reusable materials.
The Wall Street Journal reported today that computer products are being manufactured in China, sold in the US, recycled to China remade into key chains and kid’s jewellery and then sold back to the US.
It quoted Ted Smith founder of the pressure group Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition as saying "This 'return-to-sender' issue is really important. Talk about globalization. If you drew a map of this, the arrows would go in lots of different directions."
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