High tech trash : digital devices, hidden toxics, and human health /
"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...
| Основен автор: | Grossman, Elizabeth, 1957- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Washington :
Island Press/Shearwater Books,
℗♭2006.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=200836 |
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Print version::
High tech trash. |
Съдържание:
- 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.