E-wasting away

60 Minutes is on the scene in China’s Guiyu region to document toxic waste from our discarded computers. We like to think of information technology as being clean, but in fact it can be quite toxic. We need to encourage manufactures to do a better job at building toxic-free computers that can be upgraded rather than discarded every six months when a new operating system is developed.

Via HuffPost

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