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Confronting the Environmental Consequences of the High Technology Revolution

Confronting the Environmental Consequences of the High Technology Revolution ORGANIZATION & ENVIRONMENT / June 2004 Hill, Dhanda / BEYOND THE GUISE OF RECYCLING 10.1177/1086026604264880REVIEW Book Review Essays CONFRONTING THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE HIGH TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION Beyond the Guise of Recycling RONALD PAUL HILL University of South Florida, St. Petersburg KANWALROOP KATHY DHANDA University of Portland Basel Action Network and Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (with Toxics Link India, SCOPE [Pakistan], and Greenpeace China). Exporting Harm: The High- Tech Trashing of Asia (Technical report). Seattle, WA and San Jose, CA: Authors, 2002. Available from http://www.svtc.org/cleancc/pubs/technotrash.htm Basel Action Network (Producer). Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia. 2001. 23 minutes. Available from http://www.ban.org/exportingharm_film. html The electronics industry is the world’s largest and fastest growing manufacturing industry, and as a consequence of this growth, combined with rapid product obso- lescence, discarded electronics or e-waste, is now the fastest growing waste stream in the industrialized world. (p. 5) Conversations among aging baby-boomer executives reveal the profound changes in technology that have transformed their professional and personal lives. From PCs to laptops to Palm Pilots, from CDs to DVDs to high-definition televi- sions, and from pagers to cell phones to digital cameras, we now live in a world where technology is part of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Organization & Environment SAGE

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ORGANIZATION & ENVIRONMENT / June 2004 Hill, Dhanda / BEYOND THE GUISE OF RECYCLING 10.1177/1086026604264880REVIEW Book Review Essays CONFRONTING THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE HIGH TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION Beyond the Guise of Recycling RONALD PAUL HILL University of South Florida, St. Petersburg KANWALROOP KATHY DHANDA University of Portland Basel Action Network and Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (with Toxics Link India, SCOPE [Pakistan], and Greenpeace China). Exporting Harm: The High- Tech Trashing of Asia (Technical report). Seattle, WA and San Jose, CA: Authors, 2002. Available from http://www.svtc.org/cleancc/pubs/technotrash.htm Basel Action Network (Producer). Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia. 2001. 23 minutes. Available from http://www.ban.org/exportingharm_film. html The electronics industry is the world’s largest and fastest growing manufacturing industry, and as a consequence of this growth, combined with rapid product obso- lescence, discarded electronics or e-waste, is now the fastest growing waste stream in the industrialized world. (p. 5) Conversations among aging baby-boomer executives reveal the profound changes in technology that have transformed their professional and personal lives. From PCs to laptops to Palm Pilots, from CDs to DVDs to high-definition televi- sions, and from pagers to cell phones to digital cameras, we now live in a world where technology is part of

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