High tech trash digital devices, hidden toxics, and human health

"The Digital Age was expected to usher in an era of clean production, an alternative to smokestack industries and their pollutants. But as environmental journalist Elizabeth Grossman reveals in this penetrating analysis of high tech manufacture and disposal, digital may be sleek, but it's anything but clean. Deep within every electronic device lie toxic materials that make up the bits and bytes, a complex thicket of lead, mercury, cadmium, plastics, and a host of other often harmful ingredients."@en
"What happens to your computer when you finally replace it? To your cell phone, your iPod, your television set? Most likely, they - and untold millions of digital devices like them - will join the global stream of hazardous high tech trash. The Digital Age was expected to usher in an era of clean production, an alternative to smokestack industries and their pollutants. But as [the author] reveals, high tech may be sleek, but it's anything but clean.... In [this book, she] guides us along the trail of toxics and points the way to a smarter, cleaner, and healthier Digital Age. -Dust jacket."