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020			_a1559635541 _q(cloth ; _qalk. paper)
020			_a9781559635547 _q(cloth ; _qalk. paper)
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035			_a(OCoLC)64084235 _z(OCoLC)79433031 _z(OCoLC)225173812 _z(OCoLC)796901191 _z(OCoLC)982144689 _z(OCoLC)1022715436 _z(OCoLC)1057006560 _z(OCoLC)1058000124 _z(OCoLC)1059486487 _z(OCoLC)1060731161 _z(OCoLC)1060837310 _z(OCoLC)1062008715 _z(OCoLC)1074320309
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100	1		_aGrossman, Elizabeth, _d1957-
245	1	0	_aHigh tech trash : _bdigital devices, hidden toxics, and human health / _cElizabeth Grossman.
246	3	0	_aDigital devices, hidden toxics, and human health
260			_aWashington : _bIsland Press : _bShearwater Books, _c
300			_axiv, 334 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe 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.
520			_a(Publishers Description) "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, whether we know it or not. If you sit at a desk in an office, talk to friends on your cell phone, watch television, listen to music on headphones, are a child in Guangdong, or a native of the Arctic, you are part of this story. The answers lie in changing how we design, manufacture, and dispose of high tech electronics. Europe has led the way in regulating materials used in electronic devices and in e-waste recycling. But in the United States many have yet to recognize the persistent human health and environmental effects of the toxics in high tech devices. If Silent Spring brought national attention to the dangers of DDT and other pesticides, High Tech Trash could do the same for a new generation of technology's products.
650		0	_aElectronic waste.
650		0	_aElectronic apparatus and appliances _xEnvironmental aspects.
650		0	_aElectronic apparatus and appliances _xHealth aspects.
650		0	_aProduct life cycle.
650		2	_aElectronics _xinstrumentation.
650		2	_aEnvironmental Pollutants.
650		2	_aWaste Management.
650		2	_aWaste Products.
650		7	_aElectronic apparatus and appliances _xEnvironmental aspects. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00906794
650		7	_aElectronic waste. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01728652
650		7	_aProduct life cycle. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01078214
650		7	_aRecycling _2gnd
650		7	_aElektronikschrott _2gnd
650		7	_aSonderabfall _2gnd
650		7	_aGesundheit _2gnd
655		0	_aLocal author.
655		4	_aOregon authors.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aGrossman, Elizabeth, 1957- _tHigh tech trash. _d _w(OCoLC)1020023103
856	4	1	_3Table of contents _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip068/2006004549.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0631/2006004549-d.html
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