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Electronic Wasteland
By Scott Pelley, 60 Minutes, CBS, November 6, 2008
60 Minutes Follows America’s Toxic Electronic Waste As It Is Illegally Shipped To Become China’s Dirty Secret in “Electronic Wasteland”.
View the Segment. Read the Transcript.
Two stories from Business Week's investigative team:
E-Waste: The Dirty Secret of Recycling Electronics.
Lax rules and weak enforcement allow scrap companies to profit by sending junked computers, printers, and TVs overseas. Link to story.
By Ben Elgin and Brian Grow, October 15, 2008
Dangerous Fakes:
How counterfeit, defective computer components from China are getting into U.S. warplanes and ships.
By Brian Grow, Chi-Chu Tschang, Cliff Edwards and Brian Burnsed, October 2, 2008
High Tech Trash: Will Your Discarded TV End Up In A Ditch in Ghana?
By Chris Carroll, National Geographic Magazine, December 19, 2007. Read the article.
See the photo gallery of e-waste dumping in Ghana.
Environmental Protection Agency takes action against electronics recycler, by Thomas Olson, Pittsburgh Tribune Review, June 12, 2009
Humane groups think they've been duped. Charities say recycling firm put hold on $10,000 checks, by Karamagi Rujumba, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 3, 2009.
Dell Bans E-Waste Exporting to Developing Nations, by Jessica Mintz, AP, Washington Post May 12, 2009
Dell Spells Out E-Waste Policy: If It's Broken, Don't Export It, by Matthew Wheeland, Greener Computing, May 12, 2009
E-Waste: The Dirty Secret of Recycling Electronics, By Ben Elgin and Brian Grow, Business Week, October 15, 2008
Trashed Tech Dumped Overseas: Does U.S. Care?, By David Biello, Scientific America, September 19th, 2008
Report: U.S. lax on exports of toxic e-waste from old e-gear, By Julie Schmit, USA Today, September 18th, 2008
EPA Lets Electronic Waste Flow Freely, GAO Report Says, By Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post, September 17th, 2008
E-waste crackdown needed, GAO study says, By Frank Davies, San Jose Mercury News, September 17th, 2008
Audit: US Exporting Harmful E-waste to Other Countries , By Grant Gross, IDG News Service, September 17th, 2008
U.S. switch to digital TV raises specter of toxic dumping of old sets, By Erica Gies, International Herald Tribune, June 4, 2008
Breeding toxins from dead PCs, By Richard Wray, The Guardian, May 6, 2008
Destination of 'Recycled' Electronics May Surprise You, Associated Press, November 19, 2007
Lead Toxins Take a Global Round Trip , Wall Street Journal Article, July 12, 2007
Increasingly, States Push For E-Waste Recycling, by Rich Callahan, Associated Press, October 1, 2009
A Green Way to Dump Low-Tech Electronics, by Leslie Kaufman, New York Times, June 29, 2009
Scrap Scrap: When Recycling Goes Bad, by Sean Zeller, Congressional Quarterly, June 8, 2009.
Oregon's electronics recycling too successful for some manufacturers, by Scott Learn, The Oregonian, May 12, 2009.
Discover Magazine Questions the Presidential Candidates, By Melissa Lafsky, Discover Magazine, September 26th, 2008
States: Keep old TVs out of landfills, By Wendy Koch, USA Today, August 19th, 2008
Electronic Waste Taking Its Toll on Rhode Island and the World, By Natalie Garcia, Providence Journal, June 1, 2008
Politicos ponder new action against e-waste, By Anne Broache, News.com, April 30, 2008
Ewaste: Whose Problem Is IT?, By Olga Kharif, BusinessWeek, March 17, 2008
Texas and Oregon Legislatures Pass Electronics Recycling Bills, Recycling Today Magazine, May 30, 2007
Easing way for electronics recycling, Minneapolis-St.Paul Star
E-Waste Recycling Faces Challenges Critics say, By Grant Gross, Computer World, April 30, 2008
Left in the Flat-Screen Dust: Old-Model TVs Are So Toxic, You Can't Give 'Em Away. Literally. By Michael Rosenwald, Washington Post, Sept 19, 2009.
Some See E-Waste Crisis Trailing Switch to Digital TV, By Nathanial Gronewold, New York Times/Greenwire, June 15, 2009.
Campaigners highlight 'toxic TVs', By Maggie Shiels, BBC News technology reporter, Las Vegas, January 09, 2009
Toxic TV Zombies Invade Las Vegas, By Jaymi Heimbuch, San Francisco, California, January 08, 2009
TV companies don't make the grade, failed recycling efforts, few exceptions, WWLP-TV, Springfield, Massachusetts: November 19th, 2008
TV zombies protest Panasonic, By bdejesus, NJ.com, October 31, 2008
Ratings drop for TV recycling, By Colleen Diskin, NorthJersey.com, October 30, 2008
Group urges Samsung to recycle, By Stephany Garza, The Daily Texan, August 8th, 2008
Best Buy Testing Free E-Waste Recycling Program, By Michael Liedtke, AP Business Writer, Newsday, June 2, 2008
Switch to digital may clog landfills, By Jonathan J. Cooper, Post-Dispatch,May 27, 2008
Group Urges Free TV Recycling, Associated Press, November 15, 2007
Sony champions free recycling , Fortune Magazine, August 22, 2007
Old TVs cause new problems, By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, January 27, 2009
The Dark Side Of 'Green' Bulbs, By Sara Schaefer Munoz, Wall Street Journal, January 24, 2008
Hey Mom, which bin does the e-waste go in?, Alison Rood, San Francisco Chronicle, Wednesday, January 23, 2008
The hazards inside the tube, By Chris Emery, Baltimore Sun, December 23, 2007
Stunned By Turnout, Organizers Cancel E-Waste Effort, Minnesota Public Radio, November 16, 2007
Family: Prison Worker's Death Caused by Toxic Dust, By Kristin Jone, ABC News, August 8th, 2008
DOJ Investigates a Prison Electronics Recycling Program, By Kristin Jones, ABC News, July 10th, 2008
