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  • ScienceDirect - Resources, Conservation and Recycling : Electronic waste recycling: A review of U.S. infrastructure and technology options on 2009-10-06
  • GAO report torches US for dumping electronic waste in foreign countries | NetworkWorld.com Community on 2009-10-06
  • The e-Stewards Initiative : The e-Waste Crisis on 2009-10-06
  • ScienceDirect - Environmental Impact Assessment Review : The recycling and disposal of electrical and electronic waste in China—legislative and market responses on 2009-10-06
  • E-Waste Not - TIME on 2009-10-03
    • If you're like some 80% of Americans, you'll simply toss your obsolete gizmos
      into the trash. After all, that Jurassic 15-in. (38 cm) computer monitor doesn't
      look as though it's packing up to 7 lb. (3 kg) of lead. Every day Americans
      throw out more than 350,000 cell phones and 130,000 computers, making electronic
      waste the fastest-growing part of the U.S. garbage stream. Improperly disposed
      of, the lead, mercury and other toxic materials inside e-waste can leak from
      landfills.
    • The U.S. is the only industrialized country that refused to ratify the
      19-year-old Basel Convention, an international treaty designed to regulate the
      export of hazardous waste to developing nations. Meanwhile, the Environmental
      Protection Agency (EPA) oversees the export of only one type of
      e-waste--cathode-ray tubes in old TVs and monitors--and a report last August by
      the Government Accountability Office dismissed the EPA's enforcement as
      "lacking."
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  • Basel Action Network (BAN) : Warning: Digital Conversion May Result in Tsunami of Toxic TV Exports to Developing Countries on 2009-10-03
    • 12 June 2009 (Seattle, WA.) – The toxic waste watchdog
      organization, the Basel Action Network (BAN), is warning consumers to be
      extremely careful about where they take their old TVs for recycling following
      the nationwide conversion from analog-to-digital broadcasting. They are urging
      consumers to only use qualified e-Steward recyclers, the only list identifying
      electronic waste recyclers that will not export toxic TVs and other electronic
      waste to a developing country.
    • It has been conservatively estimated by some recyclers that due to the digital
      conversion, about one in four households will get rid of a TV this year. If that
      is true, it would mean 27,790,564 TVs, each containing an average of 5 pounds of
      lead, will be disposed or recycled. And with 80% of this total shunted offshore
      to developing countries, about 56,000 tons of toxic lead alone would be
      transferred and dumped on some of the world's poorest communities.
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  • Electronic Waste: More Information on 2009-10-03

    • EWRA was signed into law on September 24, 2003, and amended by SB
      50 (Stats. 2004, ch. 863) on September 29, 2004. One of the major objectives of
      the Electronic Waste Recycling Act, as amended, is to establish a new program
      for consumers to return, recycle, and ensure the safe and environmentally sound
      disposal of video display devices, such as televisions and computer monitors,
      that are hazardous wastes when discarded. On January 1, 2005, California
      consumers began paying a fee of $6 to $10 at the time they purchase certain
      video display devices. Those fees are deposited into a special account that is
      used to pay qualified e-waste collectors and recyclers to cover their costs of
      managing e-waste.

    • If you plan to export CRT materials or electronic devices, you are required to
      notify DTSC and the CUPA having jurisdiction over your facility at least 60 days
      in advance (Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations Section
      66273.40      ). This notification is valid for a period twelve (12) month or
      less.
  • FRONTLINE/World Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground | PBS on 2009-10-03
    • Agbogbloshie has become one of the world's digital dumping grounds, where the
      West's electronic waste, or e-waste, piles up -- hundreds of millions of tons of
      it each year.

    • “Life is really difficult; they eat here, surrounded by e-waste,” Anane tells
      them. “They basically are here to earn a living. But you can imagine the health
      implications.”

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  • Electronic waste - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia on 2009-10-03
    • Electronic waste, e-waste, e-scrap, or Waste Electrical
      and Electronic Equipment       (WEEE) describes loosely discarded, surplus,
      obsolete, broken, electrical or electronic devices. The processing of electronic
      waste in developing countries causes serious health and pollution problems
      because electronic equipment contains some very serious contaminants such as lead, cadmium, beryllium and brominated flame retardants. Even in
      developed countries recycling and disposal of e-waste involves significant risk
      for examples to workers and communities and great care must be taken to avoid
      unsafe exposure in recycling operations and leaching of materials such as heavy
      metals from landfills and incinerator
      ashes.
    • Guiyu in the Shantou region of China, Delhi and Bangalore in India as well as the Agbogbloshie site near Accra, Ghana have electronic waste processing areas.[9][17][18] Uncontrolled
      burning, disassembly, and disposal can cause a variety of environmental problems
      such as groundwater contamination, atmospheric pollution, or even water pollution either
      by immediate discharge or due to surface runoff (especially near coastal areas),
      as well as health problems including occupational safety and health
      effects among those directly involved, due to the methods of processing the
      waste. Thousands of men, women, and children are employed in highly polluting,
      primitive recycling technologies, extracting the metals, toners, and plastics
      from computers and other electronic waste.
  • Document View - ProQuest on 2009-10-03
    • regulations also prohibit exporting waste to poorer parts of the world unless
      the receiving country accepts the waste in question and it is going to a
      certified recycler. The guidelines fully ban the export of certain hazardous
      materials and so-called problematic waste, defined as waste that is not amenable
      to recycling and so would be harmful to the environment at its destination, like
      waste that is soggy or mixed household garbage.
    • Some types of waste exports are environmentally sound, experts say. If products
      and packaging used in Europe are manufactured in Asia, it may make sense to ship
      them back for recycling. The waste trade is partly propelled by the fact that
      fast-growing economies like China and India need the
      raw material. From Rotterdam, paper, plastic and metals tend to be sent to China. Electronic waste tends to go to African countries,
      in particular Ghana, Egypt and Nigeria.
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