toxic waste

What's the best way to deal with toxic electronic waste? How about edible cell phones?

Eco-Libris blog reviews the book 'Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town' by Kelly McMasters, about Shirley, blue-collar town located 65 miles from New York City that has been plagued by one disaster after another, including chemical and nuclear waste that are leaking into the town’s water table for decades.

Basel Action Network, a part of the non-profit Earth Economics, criticized 1-800-Got-Junk for failing to guanratee that its free electronic waste recycling program would not send toxic materials to developing countries.

This is a video timeline since the inception of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as told by those who ran the Agency from 1970-2008.

A slightly different version of my article that appeared on blogcritics magazine. This discusses pollution revealed by a Washington Post article, caused by cheap manufaturing of polycrystalline silicon for solar panels. This pollution that is affecting rural Chinese in serious ways. The background to this story is discussed with references to technical details, though the article itself it written for nonscientists. I also add information from my recent interview of Chinese author Qiu Xiaolong.

A discussion of the new revelations from the Washington Post about toxic waste in China from the industries that supply ingredients for solar panels, with personal anecdotes, additional references and key background information.

The Government Accountability Office has discovered that the White House Office of Management and Business pressured the Environmental Protection Agency to significantly weaken requirements that companies disclose releases of toxic chemicals

Since 1986, it has been established law that you have a right to know how much companies pollute each year. But the Toxics Release Inventory is now more lax. Companies can now dump up to 5,000 pounds of toxins and not even file a report.