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"E-Waste: Dumping on the Poor" Video

Submitted by pure.imagination on Fri, 03/27/2009 - 14:06
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The laptops, motherboards, hard drives, and other electronic waste discarded in the United States don't go to the local dump. Instead, as Michael Zhao explains, much e-waste is shipped to Asia, where it ends up in places like Guiyu, China - known as "trash town."

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