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The Modern Predicament
The amount of material needed to sustain the modern world is somewhat ridiculous– and what better way to understand how much substance we buy is there than looking at the trash we produce? For example, in 2005, the United States produced 246 million tons of trash.
This is an extremely large amount [...]
After receiving much media exposure about its illegal “e-waste” problem, the Chinese government is taking steps to crackdown on markets that import electronic garbage, such as old printers and copiers, but experts say the raids won’t do much to reduce the importation of high-tech garbage, which is often extracted for raw materials or reassembled and [...]