Slashdot links today to a 'photo-essay' in Foreign Policy magazine: a series of pictures showing some of the tens of thousands of people in developing countries who re-claim metals from our old computers and other tech junk. Its cheaper to ship this stuff to China than deal with it here - and a lot of it contains 17 times more gold than gold ore, and 40 times more copper than copper ore. Melting it down also releases a whole heap of evil chemicals like cadmium and lead.

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