High tech trash digital devices, hidden toxics, and human health / [electronic resource] :
Digital devices, hidden toxics, and human health
Elizabeth Grossman.
- Washington : Island Press : Shearwater Books, c2006.
- xiv, 334 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Electronic waste. Electronic apparatus and appliances--Environmental aspects. Electronic apparatus and appliances--Health aspects. Product life cycle.