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The 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, w

Who reads High Tech Trash : Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health?

Author

Grossman, Elizabeth

Publisher

Island Press : Made available through hoopla

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781597263832

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Engineering, Computer Science, Science

Rating

3.43 / 5 (50 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14