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tinynow@davatron5000 The Christian Science Monitor. Esp. for foreign news. McClatchy newspaper journalism also v. good. https://t.co/JrkjatFw23
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Áine MacDermotRT @SpyTalker: Look again: #CIA docs raise questions abt its domestic data collection - .@joshua_eaton http://t.co/KhfrW7hYJs http://t.co/4…
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Doug JohnsonThe Christian Science Monitor is an international news organization that delivers thoughtful, global coverage via its website, weekly magazine, daily news briefing, and email newsletters.
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Eddy PrestAlthough Christian Science is a religion, their website is a great source for non-biased news. They cover world wide as well as the U.S.
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alexicia marshallObsolete consumer electronics, or "e-waste," represents less than one percent of total municipal solid waste, but its environmental impacts are far reaching. Recycling efforts for e-waste, or "e-scrap," are still in their infancy, but there are still ways for consumers to recycle electronics safely. Organizations such as the Environmental Protection Agency and The National Recycling Coalition provide information and services, as do manufacturing companies. You can also donate obsolete or out-of-fashion computers and cell phones to organizations that will give them to someone in need, such as victims of domestic violence.
Among America's 140 million cellphone users, Mia Shabazz is typical. She's got one phone gathering dust in a drawer, another in her purse that's about to join the one at home, and a third she's set to buy right now.
Peering into the glass case of a cellphone sales display, one of five scattered around a Boston shopping mall, Ms. Shabazz bobs on her toes with excitement.
"That one's kind of cute—I think I want a flip phone," she says.
Plucking it out of the display case, a T-Mobile salesman hands it to her along with his pitch: When she changes phones next time, she can just remove a chip inside this one and put it in her new phone—no need to reprogram all those numbers.
That's handy. But it also keeps environmentalists like Eric Most lying awake at night, wondering what will happen to those hundreds of millions of "old" cellphones. Indeed, all those tiny phones, along with VCRs, faxes, televisions, and the growing profusion of electronic devices, are producing a slow-motion avalanche of obsolete consumer electronics or "e-waste."
E-Waste a Growing Problem
The problem could spike early next year as holiday shoppers snap up new cellphones and digital TVs, computer monitors, and cameras—sending the conventional models on a slow trek to the closet, and then to the dump. Alternatives such as recycling or reuse are in their infancy, at least here in the United States. In all, about 3 billion units of consumer electronics will be scrapped through 2010, predicts a new report by the International Association of Electronics Recyclers.
"Americans already have a large inventory of obsolete consumer electronics sitting in their homes," says John Powers, a consultant to the electronics recycling industry, adding, "The pace of technological change in consumer electronics seems to be growing. So in five years, that buildup is going to be significant."
So far, e-waste represents less than 1 percent of total municipal solid waste, the Environmental Protection Agency reports. But the fraction belies its potential pollution impact.
More than other municipal solid waste, e-waste is larded with heavy metals that leach into groundwater. Chromium, zinc, lead, copper, manganese, selenium, and arsenic are common on electronic circuit boards. The threat from those is growing as the volume in landfills grows.
Consider cellphones. Though tiny, they add up to a big pollution threat because they have the shortest lifespan among consumer electronics—1.5 years—according to a report last month by INFORM, an environmental group.
Most of the phones still work, but are technologically or fashionably obsolete. That means that by 2005, an estimated 100 million more cellphones will join the 400 million on their first stop before the dump—in drawers or basements.
Last month's ruling by the Federal Communications Commission could accelerate the trend. The FCC is allowing cellphone subscribers to switch carriers—and take their phone numbers with them. Phones can be reprogrammed, but many are not compatible with the new company's equipment. So it's often less expensive for companies to issue a new phone.
Bottom line: The move is expected to generate up to 30 million more obsolete phones, containing lead and beryllium, that could head to the dump. The metals leach into groundwater, points out Mr. Most, author of the INFORM report.
Computers may represent an even bigger problem. Some 300 million to 600 million personal computers in the US could be headed to dumps in the next few years—many of them overseas, says Ted Smith, executive director of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition. The group estimates that up to 80 percent of old computers end up being exported to places like China or Vietnam, where children and peasants pick apart the toxic innards for $1 a day. -
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