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E-waste still sent overseas
SAN JOSE, Calif. #8212; Sheila Davis, the executive director of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, returned recently from a monthlong mission to study the impact of electronic waste on India. She and her group investigated how much of our electronic waste #8212; our cell phones, PCs, laptops, iPods, etc.
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