26 Jan
2004
26 Jan
'04
7:51 a.m.
On 26 Jan 2004, Tom Jennings wrote:
While there are increasingly stringent requirements
for some industries,
for most there are mostly only faint requirements on toxic material
disposal in the U.S. A surplus place I go to here in Calif. has
poverty-wage people standing in puddles of mud and goo, chopping copper
off transformers with bolt cutters and saws, sorting metals into bins to
be shipped to Taiwan. I know the owner. This is common practice. You
should see what most auto-wrecker yards do. It's unbelievable what goes
on here sometimes.
Sorry to sound like a left-leaning liberal bitch but exploitative people
such as you describe need to be exposed and either reformed or put out of
business. There are much more ethical and economic ways to recycle these
materials than what is being described here.
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