Even though organizations like the Basel Convention make sure that e-waste is not shipped to developing countries, it still happens. Why?
It still happens because there are jerks out there who just dont care and properly monitor these things. They may say that they "dont" ship it to other countries but ofcourse thats what they would mention. Money will always be a key factor to major companies, things will be swept under the rug if enough money is paid. Countries such as Japan and China who do recieve some of our E-Waste do pay a lot of money off the books to the companies who ofcourse do not say no. The E-Waste is being made into weapons and harmful chemicals that are certainly not good for the U.S to not realize, yet the managers and owners of the companies dont care all because of greed.
September 29th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
It still happens because there are jerks out there who just dont care and properly monitor these things. They may say that they "dont" ship it to other countries but ofcourse thats what they would mention. Money will always be a key factor to major companies, things will be swept under the rug if enough money is paid. Countries such as Japan and China who do recieve some of our E-Waste do pay a lot of money off the books to the companies who ofcourse do not say no. The E-Waste is being made into weapons and harmful chemicals that are certainly not good for the U.S to not realize, yet the managers and owners of the companies dont care all because of greed.
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