Toolkit and Fact Sheets: Other Reports

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Reports
Report Details
Reports on Exporting E-Waste and Prison Labor
Exporting Harm - The High Tech Trashing of Asia.
The United States and other wealthy nations use most of the world's electronic products and generate most of the e-Waste. Yet, they have also made use of a convenient, hidden escape valve - exporting the e-waste crisis to impoverished developing countries of Asia.
By the Basel Action Network (BAN) 2002.
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The Digital Dump - Exporting Reuse and Abuse to Africa. October 2005.
This Basel Action Network (BAN) investigation reveals that Nigeria possesses a remarkable capacity for highly skilled repair and refurbishment operations. However, BAN interviewed Nigerian refurbishing companies and discovered that most of the electronics being sent to the country are just toxic trash with no where to go.

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Recycling of Electronic Wastes in India and China: Workplace and Environmental Contamination
Greenpeace International. August 2005.

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Toxic Sweatshops:
How UNICOR Prison Recycling Harms Workers, Communities, the Environment, and the Recycling Industry
by Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, Center for Environmental Health, Computer TakeBack Campaign and Prison Activist Resource Center.

A 2006 exposé on abuse of prison labor in the e-waste recycling industry. For the first time, prison inmates and staff blow the whistle on deplorable health and safety conditions within UNICOR, a government corporation operated under the Dept. of Justice that uses captive prison labor in a range of industries, including the dismantling of toxic e-waste.
General reports on the E-Waste Issue

ELECTRONIC WASTE: Observation on the Role of the Federal Government in Encouraging Recycling and Reuse.
US General Accounting Office (GAO) Report to Congress, Nov 2005

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Reports on Toxic Chemicals and Public Health Impacts

Brominated Flame Retardants in Dust on Computers: The case for safer chemicals and better computer design.

Report by Clean Production Action, June 2004.
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Poison PCs and Toxic TVs.
Report by Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, Californians Against Waste and Materials for the Future, 2004.
This report details the growing piles of e-waste in the US, the toxics contained in the computers and monitors, and hazards of improper disposal was released.
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PVC. The Poison Plastic
Various reports on the hazards of PVC. Link to list from Center for Health and Environmental Justice, on their PVC The Poison Plastic website.
Reports on Recycling

Recycling Your Electronics - Find out which computer companies will take back your old computer, what services they offer, how to use them, and how to get free recycling.
Electronics TakeBack Coalition, Sept 2008

We update this report periodically when industry programs change.

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A Comparison of North American Electronics Recycling Systems
Jeremy Gregory and Randolph Kirchain, MIT Materials Systems Laboratory
October 2006
This report from MIT compares available data from the California, Maine and Maryland recycling programs as well as other country programs.

 
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