E-waste, the poisonous monster following the trail of the new media

Opinion: E-waste, the poisonous monster following the trail of the new media Posted 1 min ago by Paul Wallis (Wanderlaugh) in Environment The electronic age may have brought a new horizon, but it seems to have brought the old one with it. Industrial waste, nasty stuff, is piling up like 20 t0 50 million tons a year. It’s an avoidable issue, and as usual, it’s not being avoided. What’s really irritating about this is that one of the basic principles of industrial design is “No waste products”. Electronic recycling has been around for years, even the nasty things like cadmium and mercury can be reclaimed, but naturally, nobody’s doing anything systematically. That would be too much like knowing what they’re doing, which as far as I can figure out, is illegal, somewhere, according to somebody. And, of course, what is being done... [read full story]