You know, I'm just about at my end for taking it on the chin for being an American.
I'm simply sick and tired of America taking the brunt of everything wrong in the world, even when we clearly aren't at fault.
Most Americans think they're helping the earth when they recycle their old computers, televisions and cell phones. But chances are they're contributing to a global trade in electronic trash that endangers workers and pollutes the environment overseas.
Ok, sounds fair enough. Sounds like we're doing something bad right?
While there are no precise figures, activists estimate that 50 to 80 percent of the 300,000 to 400,000 tons of electronics collected for recycling in the U.S. each year ends up overseas. Workers in countries such as China, India and Nigeria then use hammers, gas burners and their bare hands to extract metals, glass and other recyclables, exposing themselves and the environment to a cocktail of toxic chemicals.
Ok, so China, India, and Nigeria are using unsafe practices to recycle these materials, and this is somehow America's fault?
Blame them for not recycling properly, save the anti-American slant for someone who might buy into that line of bullshit.
China and Japan use as much electronics as we do, but you don't hear that in this article, you only hear about how America is blindly polluting the environment indirectly.
Travis
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