Have you converted? If you haven't, you might want to start hustling. The USA becomes an all-digital TV market on Feb. 17. When it happens at midnight more than 70 million analog TVs that use antennas to receive over-the-air signals will need help...
SEATTLE - Hong Kong intercepted and returned 41 ship
containers to U.S. ports this year because they carried tons of illegal electronics waste from the U.S., according to the Hong Kong Environmental
Protection Department.
By turning the containers away, Hong Kong thwarted attempts
by U.S. companies to dump 1.4 million pounds of broken TVs or computer monitors
overseas and an estimated 82,000 pounds of lead, a known toxin, in the
devices.
But thousands of other shipments probably slipped through,
says Jim Puckett, head of the Basel Action Network, or BAN, a three-employee
environmental non-profit that over eight years has become a respected watchdog
over the rapidly growing electronics recycling industry.
For years, human rights advocates and environmentalists have sounded the alarm about the export of old computers and other electronic equipment to recyclers overseas.