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High Tech Trash

Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health

Elizabeth Grossman

Published: 05/06/2006
Publisher: Shearwater
352 p. 6 x 9
Appendix. Manuscript. Index.
ISBN: 9781559635547
Hardcover: $35.00

Also Available: Paperback

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Biographies

Elizabeth Grossman is the author of Watershed: The Undamming of America and Adventuring Along the Lewis and Clark Trail and co-editor of Shadow Cat: Encountering the American Mountain Lion. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Salon, The Nation, Orion, High Country News and other publications.

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PrefaceChapter 1:The Underside of High TechChapter 2: Raw Materials: Where Bits, Bytes, and the Earth's Crust CoincideChapter 3: Producing High Tech: Environmental ImpactChapter 4: High-Tech Manufacture and Human HealthChapter 5:Flame Retardants: A Tale of ToxicsChapter 6:When High Tech Electronics Become TrashChapter 7: Not In Our Backyard: Exporting Electronic WasteChapter 8:The Politics of RecyclingChapter 9:A Land Ethic for the Digital AgeAppendix: How to Recycle a Computer, Cell Phone, TV, or Other Digital DevicesNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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