{"id":121,"date":"2007-11-14T21:44:35","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T21:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/?p=121"},"modified":"2012-05-11T03:20:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T03:20:01","slug":"e-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"e-waste&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I normally listen to NPR on my way into work, and sometimes on my way home as well.  One of the programs that I usually catch is Marketplace &#8212; a look at the business world, economics, and all kinds of things.  (It&#8217;s more interesting than it sounds.)  Recently, they&#8217;ve been doing reports in a series called <a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.publicradio.org\/projects\/project_display.php?proj_identifier=2007\/11\/08\/consumed\">Consumed<\/a>, looking at whether the current &#8220;consumer economy&#8221; is sustainable.  Tonight&#8217;s report on <a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2007\/11\/14\/consumed5_pm_1\/\">the processing of e-waste<\/a> was almost a little scary.  Basically, a lot of stuff gets shipped off to China.  Processors there strip out the metals, either by just hacking the parts off, or dissolving them in chemicals.  Sometimes, the &#8220;chemical stew&#8221; (as they put it) just gets dumped into the soil.  That mixture sometimes includes lead.  The solid metals are sold to wholesalers.  Sometimes those metals get used for jewelry &#8212; cheap stuff that&#8217;s sent back to the US and sold in dollar stores and the like.  And sometimes those items include lead &#8212; which shouldn&#8217;t be shocking, given the recent recalls.  Yikes.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve at least tried to be responsible with my e-waste.  When I had a computer power supply go bad a few years ago, I took it (along with an old printer) to the &#8220;hazardous materials&#8221; facility run by the city, which accepts e-waste.  So now I just hope they&#8217;ve been responsible&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I normally listen to NPR on my way into work, and sometimes on my way home as well. One of the programs that I usually catch is Marketplace &#8212; a look at the business world, economics, and all kinds of things. (It&#8217;s more interesting than it sounds.) Recently, they&#8217;ve been doing reports in a series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,22,31],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nablopomo","tag-npr","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}