This E waste issue is outrageous!

I can’t believe anyone is even allowing this to happen. It is weird how here in the U.S. we get punished for littering even if it is a little gum wrapper, but yet we dump a lot of electronics waste to other countries; it’s is kind of hypocritical of us. “The air near some electronics salvage operations that remain open contains the highest amounts of dioxin measured anywhere in the world” and we helped that happen. Even though “China has long been the world's electronics graveyard” that doesn’t mean that we should just keep dumping waste over there. The way I feel about it, is that if we wouldn’t want that crap over here than we shouldn’t be putting it over there. People like me would have dropped it off at a recycling company, but now I know that “dropping your old electronic gear off with a recycling company or at a municipal collection point does not guarantee that it will be safely disposed of.”