High tech trash : digital devices, hidden toxics, and human health /

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"The Digital Age was expected to usher in an era of clean production, an alternative to smokestack industries and their pollutants. But as environmental journalist Elizabeth Grossman reveals in this penetrating analysis of high tech manufacture and disposal, digital may be sleek, but it's...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grossman, Elizabeth, 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington : Island Press/Shearwater Books, ©2006.
Temas:
Electronic waste.
Electronic apparatus and appliances > Environmental aspects.
Electronic apparatus and appliances > Health aspects.
Product life cycle.
Electronics.
Waste products.
Pollutants.
Hazardous wastes.
Electronics
Waste Products
Electronics > instrumentation
Environmental Pollutants
Hazardous Waste
Waste Management
Electronic Waste
Appareils électroniques hors d'usage.
Produits commerciaux > Cycle de vie.
Électronique.
Déchets.
Polluants.
Déchets dangereux.
pollutants.
hazardous waste.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > Waste Management.
Waste products
Pollutants
Hazardous wastes
Electronic apparatus and appliances > Environmental aspects
Electronic waste
Product life cycle
Recycling
Elektronikschrott
Sonderabfall
Gesundheit
Oregon authors.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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