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

The Digital Age was expected to usher in an era of clean production, analternative to smokestack industries and their pollutants. But, asenvironmental journalist Elizabeth Grossman reveals in this penetratinganalysis of high tech manufacture and disposal, digital may be sleek, but it's anything but clean. Deep within every electronic device lie toxicmaterials that make up the bits and bytes, a complex thicket of lead, mercury, cadmium, plastics, and a host of other often harmfulingredients. High Tech Trash is a wake-up call to the importance ofthe e-waste issue and the health hazards involve

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 352
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781559635547
  • Genres
  • economics, health, environment
  • Release date
  • 2006