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88% of Electronics Exports Reused, Not Dumped
retroworks writes "Greenercomputing.com staff covered a study which sheds more light on the controversial practice of exporting used computer equipment overseas. University of Arizona professors Ramzy Kahhat and Eric Williams newly published research, Product or Waste? Importation and End-of-Life Processing of Computers in Peru apparently confirms what WR3A.org says in the Video 'Fair Trade Recycling'. Namely, that most of the exports of used computers imported by buyers overseas (88%) are really for reuse and repair. Otherwise, people would not pay to import them. This bolsters pro-export arguments made in a scholarly article by Charles Schmidt of NIH in 2006. Perhaps what is needed to stem e-waste pollution is not a ban on exports, but for more people to export, so that buyers have more choice of (ethical) suppliers. Put another way: If used computer exports are outlawed, only outlaws will export used computers."
What I am curious about is why a Spaniard is allowed to do so in Mexico. That's more curious than dubious restrictions on import.
~/ssh slashdot.org ssh: connect to host slashdot.org port 22: too many beers
A bunch of jackasses running around in the streets isn't instilling fear of anything. As soon as it the leadership has had enough of their shit, they'll tell the Revolutionary Guard and militias to have a rape party and kill and rape everyone they think is a protester.