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10-20-2010, 05:42 AM
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In pics: where electronics go to die
 The gadget morgue Hundreds of used cellphones sit waiting to be recycled at the offices of ECO ATM, a start-up company, in San Diego, California April 20, 2010. The eco-friendly company is building ATM type kiosks that allow a person to be instantly paid for recycling their old cell phone. Picture taken April 20, 2010. 
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10-20-2010, 05:42 AM
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 Technicians dismantle Xerox machines inside an e-waste recycle factory at Mankhal, 55 km south of Hyderabad July 17, 2009. A local environment group estimated in 2007 that India produces 150,000 tonnes of electronic waste each year.
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 A man walks past electronic waste, also known as e-waste, at a junk shop in Mumbai October 27, 2008.
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10-20-2010, 05:42 AM
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 A worker scoops industrial s**** materials, collected from discarded electronic items, at Dowa Holdings Co's Eco-System Recycling Co, a recycling plant, in Honjo, north of Tokyo March 28, 2008. Thinking of throwing out your old cell phone? Think again. Maybe you should mine it first for gold, silver, copper and a host of other metals embedded in the electronics - many of which are enjoying near-record prices. It's called "urban mining", scavenging through the s**** metal in old electronic products in search of such gems as iridium and gold, and it is a growth industry around the world as metal prices skyrocket. Picture taken March 28, 2008.
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10-20-2010, 05:43 AM
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 Worker of Ecomicro recycling company, lifts a used computer monitor in Bordeaux, January 22, 2007.
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10-20-2010, 05:43 AM
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 Shoppers walk past an ECO ATM machine at a shopping mall in Rancho Bernado, California April 20, 2010. A small start-up company from San Diego is building ATM type kiosks that can scan and price old used cellphones and then pay the customer on the spot for the device. Picture taken April 20, 2010.
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10-20-2010, 05:43 AM
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 Parts of a computer are seen at a recycling facility of Re-Tem Corp in Tokyo October 15, 2010. Re-Tem Corp researches and develops the recycling of rare earth metals vital to the production of electronics. Japanese high-tech companies face higher input costs for rare earth metals as dominant supplier China curbs exports.
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10-20-2010, 05:43 AM
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 CPU chips are seen at a recycling facility of Re-Tem Corp in Tokyo October 15, 2010. Re-Tem Corp researches and develops the recycling of rare earth metals vital to the production of electronics.
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10-20-2010, 05:44 AM
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 Computer waste are left along a river bank at Yaocuowei village near Guiyu in China's southern Guangdong province. Electonic waste, according to a recent report by pro-environment groups, contains 1,000 different substances such as lend, cadmium, chromium and mercury, heavy metals which are highly toxic. Residents around the area buy their drinking water from hawkers taken from the foot of a nearby mountain.
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10-20-2010, 05:44 AM
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 A man walks among piles of discarded computers at one of Taiwan's largest recycling factories in Taoyuan county, northern Taiwan November 24, 2009. According to Taiwan's Environmental Protection Administration, the island produced more than 80,000 tons of e-waste in 2008 and about 60,000 tons can be reprocessed into reusable materials.
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10-20-2010, 05:44 AM
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 Workers sort batteries at an electronic waste recycling factory in Wuhan, Hubei province December 3, 2009. China's renewable energy strategy through 2050 envisions renewable energy making up one-third of its energy consumption by then, the China Daily said, as the upcoming Copenhagen conference on climate change highlights the world's dependence on fossil fuels. The Chinese characters on the board read "Storage area for used Ni-Cd batteries". Picture taken December 3, 2009.
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