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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