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

out with the old

[Anonymous Coward]

It is only thought provoking if you are like most americans that have never travelled outside the US to see these kinds of things first hand. It actually says more about your lack of awarness than it does about any sort of industrial posture. Russia dumps subs off Japan and Korea. Britain dumps medical waste off the coast of Sri Lanka...Australia dumps scrap metal into the South polar seas...New York City dumps commercial waste into the Atlantic. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it's new or newsworthy. Get outside and take a look for yourself. Visit India and the Balkans and the South Seas and Asia. Waste has a meaning you obviously missed during history class.

Re:Oh come on

[FFFish]

America -- all too willing to tell other countries how to run themselves *EXCEPT* when the atrocities work in the US's favour.

Stop shipping garbage that''s loaded with heavy metals and poisons to the second-most unethical country in the world? Hell, no! WTF would any American care about the deformed babies that will result?

Only thing less ethical than a country that would allow a business to accept that shit and scatter it into the rivers, is the country that allows a business to send that shit there in the first place.