"Every year, an estimated 400 million units of obsolete electronics are scrapped. Four billion pounds of electronic waste, or e-waste, was discarded in the United States in 2005, accounting for between 2% and 4% of the municipal solid waste stream. As much as 87.5% of this was incinerated or dumped in landfills. Of the remaining 12.5% collected for “recycling,” industry sources claim that about 80% is exported to developing countries where it is processed in primitive conditions, severely endangering the environment, workers and communities. Pollution created by irresponsible e-waste processing can also come back to haunt those in the exporting countries as well in the form of air pollution fallout via long-range transport." Courtesy http://www.e-stewards.org/ewaste_crisis.html

This should be a priority. Technology can be toxic to the environment... Other countries shouldn't have to pay. We should establish government laws regulating this type of behavior, exporting our waste, and try to support a more green solution--recycling--to protect the Earth.