A Chinese Town's Get-Rich Scheme: E-trash to Cash (30 Jul 2004)

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A Chinese Town's Get-Rich Scheme: E-trash to Cash (30 Jul 2004)
The electronic trash that most Americans deposit at centers for recycling toxic materials often ends up polluting towns in developing countries, including India and Vietnam. But it is China, experts say, that has become the favored destination for the world's discarded computers and peripherals and the main source of used computer parts. 'The residues-lead, mercury, and other toxic materials-all end up in China,' says James Puckett, coordinator of the Basel Action Network, an environmental watchdog group in Seattle.

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