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We are way over our heads trying to catch up to all the wonderful new plastics on the market to find out which ones might be toxic to marine and other organisms.

The town of Guiyu in China's Guangdong Province, where residents have made an industry of recycling waste computer products with serious impact on their health, is one example. "People in Guiyu are breaking down mounds of toxic electronics with crude instruments and burning the electronics in fire pits for the gold and copper wiring in the circuit boards," Greenpeace International campaigner Casey Harrell told TechNewsWorld. "New studies show that the health impacts aren't just a combination of the impacts of chloro- and bromo-dioxin; it's exponentially higher than that," he said. "Among the few places in the world where you find mixed chloro- and bromo-dioxin is in places where you burn items with chlorine and bromine in them."

"The cables, rated from 300 V to 3600 V, conform to EN and fire performance standards. Nexans FLAMEX® cables are fire resistant and non-toxic."

"The Copper-Free Brake Initiative calls for cutting copper in brake pads to less than 5 percent by 2021 and 0.5 percent by 2025. This voluntary initiative also calls for cutting the amount of mercury, lead, cadmium, asbestiform fibers and chromium-6 salts in motor vehicle brake pads."