I hope everyone is watching 60 Minutes...CBS

[imported_Imp]

CBC did a story a while back. The local cheapo 'recyclers' are scams and in reality are just exporters to China. Unfortunate Chinese villages cook the shit for the metals in bulk. I am paranoid enough about e-dust, hope they start regulating this shit better.

 

[Newbian]

Originally posted by: NoShangriLa

Originally posted by: destrekor

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
well its jobs in china.
its their problem to regulate the industry, not ours.
anyways its old news

How is this old news?

And yes it is a problem.

It is ILLEGAL for the USA to export trash like that.

It is also false advertising. People take their e-waste to a company who promises they are truly recycling the waste here in the USA and instead they ship it off to China where kids are dying as a result.

How is this not a problem?

Well technically, it's not the USA exporting waste, it's a corporation that happens to be located in the USA doing the illegal act.

Technically it is not the Iranian that attacking the US troops in Iraq, it just that there are rebels that happens to be located in Iranian soil that are crossing the Iran/Iraq border illegally to attack US troops.

It is terrible that we are exploiting the third world more more.

Since when is China a 3rd world?

 

[The Boston Dangler]

not to sound omnipotent or anything, but i've known this was going on for years. and if i knew, then u.s. and chinese officials knew - and continue to do nothing. the west is happy to unload this "shit" for a few bucks (rather than expensive recycling facilities) and the east is happy to import materials cheaply while putting impoverished masses to work. this is really no different than ship dismantling.

i expect in a decade or two, our landfills will be dug up for large-scale recycling. these are gold mines waiting to be utilized.

 

[edro]

National Geographic had an article about this about a year ago.
It was set in India though.
They showed people melting down solder in the same pan they cook their food.

 

[Triumph]

This is why I still have my 20" Trinitron. Well, up until last week when it died, but I had been using it since 1999. If I had thrown it out, it would end up somewhere like this.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Originally posted by: Newbian

Originally posted by: NoShangriLa

Originally posted by: destrekor

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
well its jobs in china.
its their problem to regulate the industry, not ours.
anyways its old news

How is this old news?

And yes it is a problem.

It is ILLEGAL for the USA to export trash like that.

It is also false advertising. People take their e-waste to a company who promises they are truly recycling the waste here in the USA and instead they ship it off to China where kids are dying as a result.

How is this not a problem?

Well technically, it's not the USA exporting waste, it's a corporation that happens to be located in the USA doing the illegal act.

Technically it is not the Iranian that attacking the US troops in Iraq, it just that there are rebels that happens to be located in Iranian soil that are crossing the Iran/Iraq border illegally to attack US troops.

It is terrible that we are exploiting the third world more more.

Since when is China a 3rd world?

Once you get out of the major cities into the country side, it's pretty much third world.

 

[FeuerFrei]

The problem is China not recycling correctly. Hardly the US's problem.

Once China owns it, they can boil or burn whatever they want.

We cannot have domestic companies lying to us, so our local recyclers should be punished accordingly, if any laws apply.

 

[Xecuter]

Originally posted by: FeuerFrei
The problem is China not recycling correctly. Hardly the US's problem.

Once China owns it, they can boil or burn whatever they want.

We cannot have domestic companies lying to us, so our local recyclers should be punished accordingly, if any laws apply.

Whatever happens in China is China's problem, but it IS a problem that there are US companies selling old recyclable material to China; it's a violation of international law to ship that type of material overseas. These laws were developed in an attempt to prevent developed countries from effectively "dumping" their waste on third world countries willing to take it.

However, China's problems will ultimately become our problems eventually..

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: Xecuter

Originally posted by: FeuerFrei
The problem is China not recycling correctly. Hardly the US's problem.

Once China owns it, they can boil or burn whatever they want.

We cannot have domestic companies lying to us, so our local recyclers should be punished accordingly, if any laws apply.

Whatever happens in China is China's problem, but it IS a problem that there are US companies selling old recyclable material to China; it's a violation of international law to ship that type of material overseas. These laws were developed in an attempt to prevent developed countries from effectively "dumping" their waste on third world countries willing to take it.

However, China's problems will ultimately become our problems eventually..

Exactly. What did I read? 15% of the smog in the USA blows over from China.

 

[Baked]

I care. No wait, I don't. We have a large junk collection day in my neighborhood once a year, I throw all the crap around the house out, including electronics.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Executive Recycling responds to CBS' alllegations.

 

[brandonbull]

That's what they get for sending poisoned food all over the world along with their garbage products. They like stealing others' ideas/products and reverse engineering them so I hope they have fun reverse engineering that waste.

 

[nace186]

Originally posted by: brandonbull
That's what they get for sending poisoned food all over the world along with their garbage products. They like stealing others' ideas/products and reverse engineering them so I hope they have fun reverse engineering that waste.

wtf? what kind of logic is that?

 

[Newbian]

Originally posted by: nace186

Originally posted by: brandonbull
That's what they get for sending poisoned food all over the world along with their garbage products. They like stealing others' ideas/products and reverse engineering them so I hope they have fun reverse engineering that waste.

wtf? what kind of logic is that?

The revenge kind.

 

[LS8]

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