Labels:bed | book | car | comic book | daily | earth | fence | hakham | monitor | plaything | sky | traffic light | tree | truck OCR: 106 CHAPTER2 ISSUE Where Does All the e- Garbage Go? IT CALLED e-garbage or technotrash unwanted and outdated computers, monitors, printers, cell phones, PDAs disk drives, disks, CDs, and DVDs According to Greenpeace, 50 million tons of it is discarded every year In the United States alone almost eight printer cartridges are discarded every second. recycling company called GreenDisk estimates that about billion floppy disks, CDs, and DVDs end up in landfills every year U.S landfills already hold more than 2 million tons of computer and electronic parts which contain toxic substances such as lead, cadmium, and mercury A CRT monitor, for example can contain up to eight pounds of lead An Environmental Protection. Agency (EPA) report sums up the situation: "In this world of rapidly changing te ...
