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High tech trash : digital devices, hidden toxics, and human health / Elizabeth Grossman.

By: Grossman, Elizabeth.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Washington : Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2006Description: xiv, 334 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781597261906.Other title: Digital devices, hidden toxics, and human health.Subject(s): Electronic waste | Electronic apparatus and appliances -- Environmental aspects | Electronic apparatus and appliances -- Health aspects | Product life cycleDDC classification: 363.728 7
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.
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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.

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