My comfortable, happy-go-lucky life is showing here.
I don't understand this. Is the US shipping large quantities of this waste to third world countries and dumping it, or are these 'recycling' workshops buying the stuff here and bring it back to China or elsewhere to play with?
I live in Pennsylvania, and our previous governor (you may know him as Homeland Security Czar...) took some heat for the amount of trash PA was importing from other states, so I know trash gets sent around, but I find it hard to believe that we are spending shipping costs to deliberately dump this stuff on other countries. Am I just brainwashed by our government and media? Can someone explain how this trash is ending up in China?
If there are companies in China that are buying up this trash and bringing it home to recycle, that sounds more like a workers/human rights issue to me, than some reason we should be writing our congressmen to stop shipping our toxic trash overseas.
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I don't understand this. Is the US shipping large quantities of this waste to third world countries and dumping it, or are these 'recycling' workshops buying the stuff here and bring it back to China or elsewhere to play with?
I live in Pennsylvania, and our previous governor (you may know him as Homeland Security Czar...) took some heat for the amount of trash PA was importing from other states, so I know trash gets sent around, but I find it hard to believe that we are spending shipping costs to deliberately dump this stuff on other countries. Am I just brainwashed by our government and media? Can someone explain how this trash is ending up in China?
If there are companies in China that are buying up this trash and bringing it home to recycle, that sounds more like a workers/human rights issue to me, than some reason we should be writing our congressmen to stop shipping our toxic trash overseas.
yah, yah, I know.