I like her presentation, but I wish she'd stop calling it "the electronics industry" and refer to it as 'corporatisation.' IMHO, it's useful to view this through the lens of the (excellent) documentary, "The Corporation."

Remember the corporate mantra: Publicize the risk. Privatize the profit.

Dumps are how corporations socialize the cost of end-to-end design...the last end is the public.

PS - I'd leave more links but my comments never show up when I do.

I am a teacher at William Greville Davis senior public School and i thin we should stop at this rate and be more"greener" this is a issue.

ms. Bailey

The other half of the equation is that we need to legitimatize the electronics recycling industry and do a proper, safe job of re-harvesting usable materials and only disposing of the absolute minimum. Perhaps instead of massive Government bailouts of a floundering auto industry, our North American governments should have funded a new industry; the recycling of e-waste. It's about time we (and our corporations) took responsibility for cleaning up our own mess. Think of it; we could create a massive number of jobs if we would start thinking differently about this problem and asking for corporate accountability.

The corporations that make these goods should have to pay for their proper disposal. Full stop.

Also, we need to make it absolutely criminal to ship waste offshore. North American authorities regularly turn a blind eye to these illegal exports.

In the meantime, designers of these products should also focus on eliminating toxins and designed redundancy.

Finally, if you want to see electronic recycling really looks like (and not a cartoon) I recommend to you the photographic works of Canadian artist Edward Burtynsky (and in Particular the video documentary/book series he did, Manufactured Landscapes). Little Chinese kids ripping apart toxic computer "guts" with their bare hands. Not a pretty sight at all.

I totally agree; mining from old machines, with the right safety equipment, has got to be better than digging into the ground.

My husband, a geochemist (and expert on mining) says I am bang on; the concentrations of raw goods in the e-waste are far more than those we must dig out of the ground.

I hereby patent my idea! Now I just need to become leader of the free world and save us all (:-P)

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