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Toxic electronics tracked around the world to dumps
August 4th, 2009 | 
Author: Submitted by SHNS on Thu, 05/28/2009 – 14:52.
By KARAMAGI RUJUMBA, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette national
After tracking hazardous waste shipments and dumping around the world, a national environmental group has sounded the alarm about a million pounds of old electronics innocently donated in Pennsylvania.
“When it comes to breaking down electronics, there are no free and environmentally safe recyclers,” said Sarah Westervelt, of the Seattle-based environmental watchdog Basel Action Network.
The group contends that the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society and Allegheny County, Pa., should have known that a free electronics recycling program it set up with EarthEcycle LLC was too good to be true.
The environmental group this week issued a report claiming that EarthEcycle — which collected more than 1 million pounds of old electronics through the Humane Society’s recycling campaign in March and April — ships hazardous waste to countries where it will most likely end up in toxic dumping grounds.
In the EarthEcycle case, operatives of Basel Action Network tracked seven ocean-going containers as they left two warehouses — Levin Furniture in Monroeville, Pa., and another in Homewood, Pa. — and headed for Newark, N.J., and then to Hong Kong and South Africa.
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