On: City of San Francisco Will No Longer Buy Apple Products

[hell0_th3r3]

agreed. e-waste is a massive problem that most techies would rather ignore. most of our toxic electronic waste ends up in the third world, poisoning environments.

[Volpe → hell0_th3r3]

Could you elaborate? How does it end up there? And what does the poisoning?

[krschultz → Volpe]

Find the 60 minutes episode on computer recycling, it's pretty horrifying.

[hell0_th3r3 → Volpe]

https://www.google.com/search?q=what%20happens%20to%20e-wast...

numerous resources for your reading pleasure