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If you own any of those things mentioned above or any other type of electronic in your office or household, watch this video. So that means each and every one of you reading this right now should be pressing play.

Electronic waste is no joke. Most of the e-waste from the states is shipped illegally to Asia where labor workers (including women and children) disassemble the pieces for gold and metals. Field sized piles of monitors and scrap pieces are burned daily and the fumes from the chemicals that are released through the process are toxic, polluting the air, soil and eventually getting into the water stream.

Women that work in the field have the highest level of miscarriages and birth defects. Cancer is also a high probability. Much of the work is carried out by children, commonly using only rudimentary tools and with no protective equipment.

I’ve donated appliances to E-waste recycling events with the belief that they were not being shipped overseas and were being recycled safely here in the United States. I feel bamboozled. It’s sad and disturbing that people are capitalizing on the green movement.

Props to the 60 Minutes reporters for fighting back against the Chinese gangsta’s. Read what the accused recycling company (Executive Recycling) had to say about the allegations here.

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