Author: Grossman, Elizabeth

The Digital Age was expected to take us beyond the toxicity of smokestacks and pollution. But as environmental journalist Elizabeth Grossman reveals in this penetrating analysis of high-tech manufacture and disposal, every electronic device contains toxic materials like lead, mercury, cadmium and plastics. Americans alone discard five to seven million tons of high-tech electronics each year. "E-waste"now makes up over two-thirds of the heavy metals and 40% of the lead in our landfills - and shiploads of our discarded electronics arrive daily in the Third World. 352 pp.