Japan's War On E-Waste

Stonent1 writes "With the increasing number of high tech devices in Japan filling landfills, Japan has taken a proactive approach to E-waste. BBC News has an interesting article on Matsushita's electronics recycling plant. For example, TV and monitor tubes are opened with a special tool and separated into leaded and unleaded glass, melted and reused in new displays! The plastic housing is also melted down and reused. Sounds like a good idea for the U.S., too."

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Volume?

[repsychler]

While I support this idea, is this really a problem? I have a hard time believing that even gadget crazy Japan is throwing away enough electronic crap to compare with the volume of everything else that gets thrown away.