Tuesday, May 08, 2007

High Tech Trash

Could we be referring to a person whose unfortunate personal life choice is splashed across the tabloids and then re-enacted in Second Life?

Nope.

Elizabeth Grossman wrote a rather startling treatise on how dirty the clean tech stuff really is. The environment is in danger from the plastics and chemicals used to create our paperless, instant communication world. She concludes her book with a chapter on how to recycle those fancy gadgets.

Check it out - High Tech Trash : Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics and Human Health (TD 799.85 .G76 2006) by Elizabeth Grossman

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