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High tech trash [electronic resource] : digital devices, hidden toxics, and human health / Elizabeth Grossman

Author:
Grossman, Elizabeth, 1957-
Additional Titles:
Digital devices, hidden toxics, and human health
Published:
Washington : Island Press : Shearwater Books, c2006.
Physical Description:
xiv, 334 p. ; 24 cm.
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Contents:
The underside of high tech -- Raw materials : where bits, bytes, and the earth's crust coincide -- Producing high tech : the environmental impact -- High-tech manufacture and human health -- Flame retardants : a tale of toxics -- When high tech electronics become trash -- Not in our backyard : exporting electronic waste -- The politics of recycling -- A land ethic for the digital age -- Appendix. How to recycle a computer, cell phone, TV, or other digital devices.
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ISBN:
1559635541 (cloth : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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