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 Electronic Wasteland
By Scott Pelley, 60 Minutes, CBS, November 6, 2008
60 Minutes Follows America's Toxic Electronic Waste As It Is Illegally Shipped To Become China's Dirty Secret in "Electronic Wasteland".
View the Segment. Read the Transcript.
 Two stories from Business Week's investigative team:
E-Waste: The Dirty Secret of Recycling Electronics.
Lax rules and weak enforcement allow scrap companies to profit by sending junked computers, printers, and TVs overseas. Link to story.
By Ben Elgin and Brian Grow, October 15, 2008
 Dangerous Fakes:
How counterfeit, defective computer components from China are getting into U.S. warplanes and ships.
Link to story and slideshow.
By Brian Grow, Chi-Chu Tschang, Cliff Edwards and Brian Burnsed, October 2, 2008
  High Tech Trash: Will Your Discarded TV End Up In A Ditch in Ghana?
By Chris Carroll, National Geographic Magazine, December 19, 2007. Read the article.
See the photo gallery of e-waste dumping in Ghana.
Stories on E-Waste Exporting
Environmental Protection Agency takes action against electronics recycler, by Thomas Olson, Pittsburgh Tribune Review, June 12, 2009
Humane groups think they've been duped. Charities say recycling firm put hold on $10,000 checks, by Karamagi Rujumba, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 3, 2009.
E-Waste: The Dirty Secret of Recycling Electronics, By Ben Elgin and Brian Grow, Business Week, October 15, 2008
Trashed Tech Dumped Overseas: Does U.S. Care?, By David Biello, Scientific America, September 19th, 2008
Stories on E-Waste Policy
Increasingly, States Push For E-Waste Recycling, by Rich Callahan, Associated Press, October 1, 2009
A Green Way to Dump Low-Tech Electronics, by Leslie Kaufman, New York Times, June 29, 2009
Scrap Scrap: When Recycling Goes Bad, by Sean Zeller, Congressional Quarterly, June 8, 2009.
Oregon's electronics recycling too successful for some manufacturers, by Scott Learn, The Oregonian, May 12, 2009.
Stories on Toxics in Electronics
Old TVs cause new problems, By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, January 27, 2009
Hey Mom, which bin does the e-waste go in?, Alison Rood, San Francisco Chronicle, Wednesday, January 23, 2008
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