This is totally fucked considering I’ve thrown out my fair share of CRT’s, and we all know one man who cracked and burned his fair share…
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This is totally fucked considering I’ve thrown out my fair share of CRT’s, and we all know one man who cracked and burned his fair share… 5 Responses to “One man’s mopier is another man’s melanoma”Leave a ReplyYou must be logged in to post a comment. Login » |
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November 11th, 2008 at 8:21 am
I think this will upset someone (swigger)…but I see the recycling as such:
Made in China from toxic shit, Shipped to USA, Bought in USA, Used in USA, Recycled in USA, Shipped to China, Stripped by the Chinese into toxic shit.
Sounds like a closed case, no?
I love the part where the newsdude confronts the “good hearted American recycler” with evidence, and he reverts to the old stop-tearing-down-small-business bullshit.
November 11th, 2008 at 10:14 am
While you’re correct in stating that the products were most likely “made in China” their components and the product’s design most likely came from the west. I’m assuming that when a company like Dell designs a laptop, the manufacturer in China doesn’t decide which components they will use in the final product. Of course this doesn’t hold true for the products purely designed and manufactured in China, which I’m sure there are a lot out there, but since we don’t manufacture anywhere near the amount of products that China does that leaves all of our companies with the task of designing the products that China assembles.
It’s just unfortunate that seemingly the only means of providing for their families in these Chinese towns is by melting down toxic crap-tech.
November 11th, 2008 at 10:54 am
This shit is ridiculous. I don’t care where it’s made or who designed what, NO ONE should have to work, much less live, in those conditions.
Are there reasons for it? Yes.
Excuses for it? No.
November 15th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
The second video’s beginning cut-scene music is by Daniel Lenz. Beard should like that.
Sure I’ve smashed and burned countless monitors in my time, but overall, this is a collective problem and responsibility for both the US and China. The bullshit company that was contracted to do recycling in Denver obviously doesn’t care about business ethics or the environment. How could they? If they truly wanted to set up facilities to properly recycle the steels, leads, cadmiums, plastics, ceramics, tins, arsenics, gold, silver, tungstens, fiberglasses, glasses, phospors, irons, nickels, coppers, lithiums, teflons, mercuries, aluminums, rubbers, vinyls and organic materials found in all electronic wastes, it would cost millions in upfront setup and operational costs…far outweighing any production and sales costs combined. Recycling a failed LCD TV that originally costed $699 at Circunt City would probably actually cost $10,000 over it’s lifetime from beginning to end…or even more if the US actually built the TV to begin with. Government subsidation is the only way to preven e-waste from entering toxic town in China. A private organization would go bankrupt before it even started.
November 15th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
what a well thought out, well reasoned reply, soc. That’s exactly what pisses me off when conservatives blather on about how the free market solves everything. It’s really through government intervention and activism that any morality is enforced within the market.