Robin,

Thanks for the link to the WR3A web posting on reuse, repair, and
recycling in Asia. As usual, you have provided a lot of new information
to the forum. 
I was struck by the comment on the World Tour page "...there is a very
strong, very professional, and very legitimate reuse, repair and
recycling marketplace in Asia, but [they are] specialized, not able to
take 'everything'". 
Since my interest is in the recycling of e-waste outside the legitimate
recycling marketplace (the remainder that the legitimate recyclers can't
take or don't get), I appreciate your offer to provide information on
"the worst electronic recycling in the world." This is exactly what I
requested in my previous posting - poisonings attributable to people's
exposure to the materials in discarded electronic products as they
recycle them.
Upon further reflection, I think that I should expand the scope of the
request to poisonings attributable to people's exposure to materials
involved in unregulated recycling of electronic products.
Also, we know that adequate concern for the environment is lacking in
many developing countries and that people there irresponsibly pollute
their environment in many ways. It is worth recalling that before
environmental activists, to their credit, drew attention to the issue,
people in developed countries similarly polluted their environment.
There was a time when people, animals, and plants were being poisoned in
North America, Western Europe, and elsewhere to a far greater extent
than today. We can hope that as happened for the developed world,
indigenous efforts in the developing world to prevent and reverse
environmental pollution will eventually be effective in drastically
reducing poisonings there - surely a worthy goal.
So to put the matter in perspective, I wonder if you (or any other forum
participant) could, for regions of the world you know about, give a
sense of what fraction of environmental pollution from all industry
(mining, manufacturing, etc.) is attributable to unregulated and
irresponsible electronics recycling. 
I am sure that anything that you post will be informative, not
sensational.

Gordon Davy 
Baltimore, MD 
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410-993-7399 

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