Unintended Results From U.S. Hardware Dumps In Asia

Izeickl writes: "The BBC has a thought provoking story about old hardware being dumped in parts of Asia. The report 'details a group of villages in south-eastern China where computers from America are picked apart and strewn along rivers and fields.' the article also states 'The report suggested that as much as 80% of the America's electronic waste collected to be recycled is shipped out of the country.'"

Comments

Re:Ships stranding

[somethingwicked]

And last I heard from greenpeace, the world was ending tomorrow...

Reliable as your information is sure to be, this would be a far more costly way of business than the normal "bribing and dumping" disposal model. Why would they do this???

Not all followups are flamebait, BTW...

Are there *any* international conventions

[Anonymous Coward]

that the US abides by? The ones about antarctica maybe? (unless they find oil there ;-)
The only one I can think of is the copyright convention, which has been embraced and extended too.

Re:Are there *any* international conventions

[mpe]

that the US abides by?

Those which suit US interests at the time and those which were created by the corporate masters of the US government, maybe...

Re:Want to find a solution?

[TikkaMassala]

Well, Bush flatly shat on the Kyoto agreement because it wasn't financially kind to the US, so I imagine the chances of him giving a rats ass about this are slim to none. Actually, none.

As usual, it is Microsoft's fault.

[glomph]

Were it not for their onslaught of ever-more-bloated crap, the replacement rate of hardware would not be anywhere near so insane, and this dumping would be a far smaller problem.

Word 5.1 runs great on a P75. There really has been no reason to upgrade, for most boring PC uses.

Where do I click? Where do I click?

Re:And the point is ???????

[CDWert]

You dont get the point, it wasnt our war, on our soil....

Not the european campaign at least, Pacific, that was our war.

The man and MATERIAL Poured into the European was insane, we never got paid for most of that material, especially from the russians.

Im not Belittling the contributions of ANYONE, it was your war, and Hitler and his plans, were the direct result from your. being the european communitys inaction and arrogance.

EUROPE WASNT OUR FUCKING WAR, It became our war ONLY because of or desire to aid Brittan, dont question our contrtibution, and not only in WWII but our economic support postwar, we could have left europe a pile of rubble that it was, yes the europeans did for themselves, but it was their situation in the first place.