The Electronic Wasteland

Like Sketches of Frank Gehry, I had already seen this video before. It is a truly remarkable piece that really opens up your eyes to what electronics, and especially the materialism of us in the United States, is doing to the world. It is crazy that our country throws away 130,000 computers a day, and 100 million cell phones a year. Some of the metals they described in the video that are contained in electronic waste are lead, cadmium, mercury, chromium, and more. And then, also looking at what is going on in China with our waste is terrible. The video stated something along the lines of, '21st century objects are being taken down, broken down, etc., in a 17th century environment and with 17th century processes/etc. That is awful to know and especially awful to know that there are over 45 recycling companies in our country that were willing to sell the color tubes from monitors to China for a lot of money.