LEADER 04492nam 22006734a 450 001 9910960148703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9781597263832 010 $a1597263834 010 $a9781429490108 010 $a1429490101 035 $a(CKB)1000000000476485 035 $a(OCoLC)560318281 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10182341 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000170921 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11184045 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000170921 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10235850 035 $a(PQKB)11437717 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3317415 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3317415 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10182341 035 $a(OCoLC)170604947 035 $a(Perlego)2984951 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000476485 100 $a20060210d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHigh tech trash $edigital devices, hidden toxics, and human health /$fElizabeth Grossman 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aWashington $cIsland Press $cShearwater Books$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (350 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9781559635547 311 08$a1559635541 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe underside of high tech -- Raw materials : where bits, bytes, and the earth's crust coincide -- Producing high tech : the environmental impact -- High-tech manufacture and human health -- Flame retardants : a tale of toxics -- When high tech electronics become trash -- Not in our backyard : exporting electronic waste -- The politics of recycling -- A land ethic for the digital age -- Appendix. How to recycle a computer, cell phone, TV, or other digital devices. 330 8 $aThe Digital Age was expected to usher in an era of clean production, an alternative to smokestack industries and their pollutants. But as environmental journalist Elizabeth Grossman reveals in this penetrating analysis of high tech manufacture and disposal, digital may be sleek, but it's anything but clean. Deep within every electronic device lie toxic materials that make up the bits and bytes, a complex thicket of lead, mercury, cadmium, plastics, and a host of other often harmful ingredients. High Tech Trash is a wake-up call to the importance of the e-waste issue and the health hazards involved. Americans alone own more than two billion pieces of high tech electronics and discard five to seven million tons each year. As a result, electronic waste already makes up more than two-thirds of the heavy metals and 40 percent of the lead found in our landfills. But the problem goes far beyond American shores, most tragically to the cities in China and India where shiploads of discarded electronics arrive daily. There, they are "recycled"-picked apart by hand, exposing thousands of workers and community residents to toxics.As Grossman notes, "This is a story in which we all play a part, whether we know it or not. If you sit at a desk in an office, talk to friends on your cell phone, watch television, listen to music on headphones, are a child in Guangdong, or a native of the Arctic, you are part of this story."The answers lie in changing how we design, manufacture, and dispose of high tech electronics. Europe has led the way in regulating materials used in electronic devices and in e-waste recycling. But in the United States many have yet to recognize the persistent human health and environmental effects of the toxics in high tech devices. If Silent Spring brought national attention to the dangers of DDT and other pesticides, High Tech Trash could do the same for a new generation of technology's products. 517 3 $aDigital devices, hidden toxics, and human health 606 $aElectronic waste 606 $aElectronic apparatus and appliances$xEnvironmental aspects 606 $aElectronic apparatus and appliances$xHealth aspects 606 $aProduct life cycle 615 0$aElectronic waste. 615 0$aElectronic apparatus and appliances$xEnvironmental aspects. 615 0$aElectronic apparatus and appliances$xHealth aspects. 615 0$aProduct life cycle. 676 $a363.72/87 700 $aGrossman$b Elizabeth$f1957-$01805700 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910960148703321 996 $aHigh tech trash$94354432 997 $aUNINA