Toxic Trade News / 12 June 2010
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Recycling India's e-waste brings jobs to poor -- and health, environmental fears
by Rama Lakshmi, The Washington Post
 
Women and children in Tila Byehta village in northern India collect several full sacks of copper strips from computer circuit boards with their bare hands every day.(Rama Lakshmi - The Washington Post)

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