What Happens To E-Waste Generated By The Shift To High Definition Television?
* "US regulatory controls do little to stem the export of potentially hazardous used electronics."
* "US Exports of potentially harmful used electronics flow virtually unrestricted."
* Existing regulations focus only on CRTs, but companies easily circumvent the CRT regulations, because they are confident that they will not get caught.
* "EPA has done little to enforce the CRT rule" which went into effect in January 2007. Only one company has been fined so far, and that July 2008 penalty resulted from a problem the GAO identified.
* The EPA does not plan to enforce the CRT regulations. "They have no plans, and no timetable for developing the basic components of an enforcement strategy…"
Image credit:Basel Action Network, E-waste dump
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