You know that warm, altruistic feeling you get when you attempt to “go green” by recycling your old electronics? Turns out you’re killing people in Hong Kong and other Asian cities.
That old monitor you’re recycling has poison inside of it. That doesn’t sound so bad, unless you’re the very impoverished and very unlucky guy who’s job it is to mine the valuable metals out of the thing. He inhales the toxins, and then gets sick, and then he dies.
The problem is that many cities, universities, and other large organizations pay to recycle, and it always goes to the lowest bidder. That sucks, because the lower bids are more likely to be the dangerous recyclers.
So you should implore anyone who will listen to check the background of the recycling company they’re dealing with. That old PC could turn into cancer in someone a world away, and that would be your fault, jerk.
America ships electronic waste overseas [Yahoo! News]
hey that’s interesting what you,re saying. I mean not in a good way but a bad one because it would suck that someone would have to die even though people think thaey have gfood intentions. I work in the recycling buisness and we don’t recycle our computers yet, we just let them lie around till we’ll find someone trust worthy to recycle them so that way nobody dies as a result of improper work methods….
plz send me computer scrap rate and some images
of scrap + LCD etc, (very soon)
Thanks
Your Trully
Mr Rizwan
I am intrested in bying computer scrap if you have any Scrap patrs like memory, mother boards, hard drives, dvd RW , or more kindly let me know.
Irfan.
mother borad moniter ups etc.