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Rantings in the digital wind as your Grot Shop of the information age. "I didn't get where I am today without recognising a completely useless machine when I see one" - C.J.
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Not a pretty sight. Imagine if the cost of the environmental issues were figured into the products we import. Imagine the prices at WalMart if there was a price adjustment for the clean production and disposal of all these goods.
Jon
China's e-waste nightmare worsening
(AP).  AP - The air smells acrid from the squat gas burners that sit outside homes, melting wires to recover copper and cooking computer motherboards to release gold. Migrant workers in filthy clothes smash picture tubes by hand to recover glass and electronic parts, releasing as much as 6.5 pounds of lead dust.
[Yahoo! News: Technology News]
10:04:53 PM 
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