{"id":7,"date":"2002-08-27T09:52:36","date_gmt":"2002-08-27T09:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=7"},"modified":"2016-01-13T18:15:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T02:15:29","slug":"where-do-all-those-old-computers-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2002\/08\/27\/where-do-all-those-old-computers-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Do All Those Old Computers Go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC has a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/hi\/english\/static\/in_depth\/world\/2002\/disposable_planet\/waste\/chinese_workshop\/\">photo essay<\/a> on Chinese workshops that recycle old computer parts from the west. Long hours and low pay are involved, of course, but there is also the problem of toxins. We rarely think of our computers as anything other than high-tech wonders. But lead, cadmium, chromium and mercury are all poisonous metals commonly found in computers, and these toxic metals \u2014 and more \u2014 are causing health problems among those who handle them.<\/p>\n<p>For more information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/hardwaretopics\/hardware\/story\/0,10801,66106,00.html\">Report criticizes IT industry on hardware recycling<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC has a photo essay on Chinese workshops that recycle old computer parts from the west. Long hours and low pay are involved, of course, but there is also the problem of toxins. We rarely think of our computers as anything other than high-tech wonders. But lead, cadmium, chromium and mercury are all poisonous metals&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2002\/08\/27\/where-do-all-those-old-computers-go\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where Do All Those Old Computers Go?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-tech-the-net","category-the-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5heLP-7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}