Trashed Tech Dumped Overseas: Does U.S. Care?

Friday, September 19, 2008 - 14:07 in Mathematics & Economics

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) knows that most of the 1.9 million tons (1.7 million metric tons) of discarded cell phones, computers and televisions, among other electronic goods, went into landfills, because those are the agency's own figures. [More]

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