1. anglophonicblog: When you throw your e-waste away (or use a feel-good recycling facility) it is separated from American landfill waste and sent to China.  E-waste means: batteries, phones, TVs, personal computers, tablets, iPads, etc. Poor people, most of whom are former farmers, strip any and all valuable metals off of the motherboards of these devices.  The remaining parts (plastic, silicon, highly carcinogenic wire harness insulation) are then burned in open-air pits in medieval scrap yards or simply buried in a Chinese landfill.  Or, in an act of pure, almost evil  callousness…shipped off to dumping grounds in Africa. For those of you who have ever witnessed a car or a computer on fire - - the material used to shield electrical wire is so poisonous that in most cases, fire departments will simply let a car burn hot before approaching it.  By the time you can smell the acrid odor, you’ve inhaled enough to give yourself cancer 10 times over. - Food for thought while you are camping out overnight at the Apple Store, waiting for the latest device which will become obsolete in 90 days.

    anglophonicblog:

    When you throw your e-waste away (or use a feel-good recycling facility) it is separated from American landfill waste and sent to China. 

    E-waste means: batteries, phones, TVs, personal computers, tablets, iPads, etc.

    Poor people, most of whom are former farmers, strip any and all valuable metals off of the motherboards of these devices.  The remaining parts (plastic, silicon, highly carcinogenic wire harness insulation) are then burned in open-air pits in medieval scrap yards or simply buried in a Chinese landfill.  Or, in an act of pure, almost evil  callousness…shipped off to dumping grounds in Africa.

    For those of you who have ever witnessed a car or a computer on fire - - the material used to shield electrical wire is so poisonous that in most cases, fire departments will simply let a car burn hot before approaching it.  By the time you can smell the acrid odor, you’ve inhaled enough to give yourself cancer 10 times over.

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    Food for thought while you are camping out overnight at the Apple Store, waiting for the latest device which will become obsolete in 90 days.

    (Source: anglophonic-blog)

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