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
 
Obsolete computers come to New Delhi's biggest electronic waste market where the machines are dismantled and recycled every day in about 100 hole-in-the-wall shops. Business is booming, shopkeepers say.(Rama Lakshmi - The Washington Post)

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