Asia is the Wasteland for USA!!!
2008 September 19
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a 67-page report citing United Nations surveys that say U.S. companies are shipping their e-waste to foreign countries as a cheaper method of recycling. The companies are dumping everything from cell phones to computers in China and India, whose disposal practices are deemed unsafe and unregulated, the report says.
Green is the new black in the tech industry. A new report suggests that hardware companies are cutting corners in their recycling efforts by dumping the responsibility on Asian countries, making eco-friendliness appear to be more of a fashion statement than a genuine effort.
Dang, that’s no good. Theoretically I suppose that the parts could be effectively recycled there, given how many of them were originally assembled in India and China, but that doesn’t sound like what’s happening. The corporations should really work on putting a program like that in place.