Consumer Law

Externalized Costs = E-Waste Everywhere

By Sam Glover

Waste from electronics doesn’t just pollute, it makes workers across the world sick. In corporate speak, this is called externalizing costs. Instead of spending money to build non-toxic, durable electronics, manufacturers let workers and consumers bear the costs of the e-waste: sickness, cancer, miscarriages, and worse.

Annie Leonard explains in The Story of Electronics

(Thanks, Consumerist!)

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Full post as published by Caveat Emptor on December 05, 2010 (boomark / email).