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High tech trash : digital devices, hidden toxics, and human health / Elizabeth Grossman.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grossman, Elizabeth, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Electronic waste.
- Electronic waste--Environmental aspects.
- Electronic waste--Health aspects.
- Product life cycle.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 334 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington : Island Press/Shearwater Books, [2006]
- Summary:
- An environmental journalist reveals that 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.
- Contents:
- The 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-322) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1559635541
- OCLC:
- 64084235
- Publisher Number:
- 9781559635547
- Online:
- Publisher description
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