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Published on April 8th, 2008

Striking Video About Our E-Waste

In order to get a tiny bit of gold out of a circuit board, e-waste recyclers expose themselves to toxic materials and pollute the water. All the industrialized countries have signed a treaty to ban the export of e-waste except the US.

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