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Exporting waste illegally to poor countries has become a vast and growing international business, as companies try to minimize the costs of new environmental laws, like those here, that tax waste or require that it be recycled or otherwise disposed of in an environmentally responsible way.

A nice example of a trade-in website. You type the name and model of your product, answer a few questions about its condition, and Costco tell you how much they will pay you for it. It's interesting to enter older items and see that many of them won't be accepted - leaving the user to dispose of the device, hopefully responsibly.

With e-readers like Apple's new iPad and Amazon's Kindle touting their vast libraries of digital titles, some bookworms are bound to wonder if tomes-on-paper will one day become quaint relics. But the question also arises, which is more environmentally friendly: an e-reader or an old-fashioned book?

The Basel Action Network, an American watchdog group that has sought to curb the export of toxic electronic waste from the United States, plans to begin a new certification and auditing program on Thursday for both recyclers and companies that generate electronic refuse.

Lesson 2: Supply Chain of a Laptop can be adapted for ITGS>

Clever video about electronic waste. Designed for students.