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The Wasteland

August 30, 2009 4:19 PM

Where does all the electronic refuse our society generates end up? Some of it is shipped illegally from the U.S. to China, reports Scott Pelley, where it is harming the environment and people.

Following The Trail Of Toxic E-Waste
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by Chey187 November 28, 2012 12:07 AM EST
Haha, that guy busted and he's trying to play stupid, what a joke :P I love you CBS!!!
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by tinklej84 August 5, 2012 1:33 PM EDT
I love how this started out with an advertisement for Lenovo laptops. Classic
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by clockwatches June 24, 2012 10:41 PM EDT
This was a very good report, that exposed the sick practice of shipping e waste to china. CBS should do more like this.
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by xxxsquidney March 19, 2012 3:06 PM EDT
I'm doing a paper on technological waste (e-waste) for a college class and this story helped me out so much! Thanks CBS! please do another report on this. And for those of you looking on how to be greener there's a book called 'Green Greener Greenest' so you can help the environment too! :) Thanks again CBS News!
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by thomasli2011 August 1, 2011 9:40 PM EDT
Don't get shocked by what you see. Americans try to place yourself deeply into these people's lives and enviroments. In poor countries, you are going to find poor working conditions and high health risks. That is just the common sense.

If you dont have food to survive and not education, you are going to do what ever it takes and find what ever you have to survive. Fortunately we in US dont have to go through that and we offten take it for granted. America is a super power in the world. We invade nations so that we would not go through proverty.

Simple as that.
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by Drakenflyxyz December 29, 2010 9:14 AM EST
Again 60 minutes has skewed another story by not doing a proper follow up! It's amazing how many people are suckered into the ratings game to help make money for a show that doesn't deserve to be on the air. IF 60 minutes had bothered in ACTUALLY doing a follow up the story they would've discovered that the container that was sent to china from Colorado was purchased and picked up from the warehouse by a CANADA Group and that ICE did a full investigation into this matter and CLEARED the company of ANY wrong doing! Brandon was correct in stating: 60 minutes DID NOT have it facts straight! 60 minutes needs to change its name to "skewed in 60 minutes"!
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by lorenzo23462 September 24, 2010 6:41 PM EDT
So here I am, trying to show this story to my class of 13-14 year students and we all get to watch this commercial for Viagra. THEN, we have to watch the Viagra Link that sits in the upper left hand corner of the screen.
Thanks CBS - get off your moral HIGH HORSE and clean up your web site so that it is a suitable teaching tool!
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by YouveGottoagree September 2, 2010 12:12 PM EDT
Oh sure - CBS, it's always America who causes all the problems. China also accepts trash from the REST OF THE WORLD - so, those piles of computers aren't JUST from the bad ol' U S of A. It's not our fault the trash ends up there - if they didn't want it - China would NOT allow it into their country.

To the other writers who suggest we need ANOTHER TAX are not thinking. A new tax will not - repeat - NOT cure this issue. Think man!

And the other who said "
The truth be told, corporations who produce these products are responsible for our toxic waste problems" is another NON THINKING person. The consumer is responsible because they demand (and get) what they want. It's a free society.

PLEASE - nearly every story produced by CBS is pointed at the nasty big and once mighty United States as the producer of all problems and an even larger Government is needed to fix it. I wanna throw up.
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by hpatterson October 26, 2009 11:20 AM EDT
I just bought a new iPod Nano. I was so pissed to discover that my older iPod speakers wouldn't charge the new Nano. I am not about to drop another $100 on new speakers if the old ones work perfectly fine. Thank you Apple for catapulting us into this mess.
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by Tripflare September 28, 2009 9:55 AM EDT
outstanding investigative reporting and follow through
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