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The thing is that India and China is FULL of a bunch of capitalists these days, so those fields are FULL of money. Bring in a container of unsorted scrap, and assign it to a guy to pick apart. Yes, it looks like a mess, but it is a work in progress. What junkyard ANYWHERE doesn't have toxic runoff, anyway? My local yard in New York looks like hell, and is probably a toxic stew, but the guy moves a hell of a bunch of metal to be reused. The (typically) young men and teenagers come in from the farms, where there is no money to be made, and can work their asses off picking apart anything into its basic materials, and make a bunch of money to move to the big city and start a business and/or save money to get married. Those piles of plastic monitor cases you see videos of? They are worth more than steel in China. The monitor cases in the piles today that make such good news footage will not be the same monitor cases in the piles in a week. And the burning of wire to strip the insulation? Well, they figured out that the shred and float tank method doesn't burn up their copper, so the bonfires pretty much died years ago. And the CRTs? Until just a few years ago, they were refurbished and put back into televisions and sent back to the US. No, things have not gotten worse. The Indian and Chinese scrapmen have figured out that efficient operation means more money in their pockets. Money means EVERYTHING to these people. -- Will