

Tech trash is a dirty little secret of the international community





















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Oh please
By mdogs444 on 11/21/2007 10:01:38 AM , Rating: 0

Oh please, thats some worst case scenario environmental trash talk right there.

Sure, we ship stuff over seas and dump it. But we also give those places millions or billions of dollars in aid. Perhaps we should stop shipping our tech trash there, and at the same time, we should also stop giving them any aid at all. Perhaps the money that we give any country in aid, who receive our "tech trash", should not be given to them and instead used solely for the United States as a means of disposing our "tech trash" locally.

RE: Oh please
By Cobra Commander on 11/21/2007 10:06:02 AM , Rating: 2
I don't see what the correlation between financial aid in totally unrelated matters and Tech Trash is. If America provides (for argument's sake) Human Rights financial support to some groups in China, those same groups are now supposed to manage the monitor I threw out last week?

Now, what you quoted is embellishing reality a bit much IMO but I still don't follow your reasoning otherwise.

RE: Oh please
By mdogs444 on 11/21/07, Rating: 0
RE: Oh please
By Cobra Commander on 11/21/2007 10:19:58 AM , Rating: 2
I think if you pay attention to to what's going on there are MANY Americans (and MANY others as well, of course) who are frustrated with this flawed recycling system. If you want to believe only those who are receiving financial aid are complaining then you're just believing something you want to believe and not looking at the bigger picture. Think about it, I'm American, I receive no financial aid and I think it's a broken system that needs fixing - how does that make you feel?

RE: Oh please
By subhajit on 11/21/2007 10:33:23 AM , Rating: 2
There is a reason why US gives other countries money, that is how they control the world. They get the countries to fall in line with them for the help they are providing.

RE: Oh please
By Bioniccrackmonk on 11/21/2007 10:39:26 AM , Rating: 2
Once they fall in line, we setup a military base to keep a strong presence there. We are the only country in the world to have numerous bases in various other countries. Why?

RE: Oh please
By Nightskyre on 11/21/2007 10:48:37 AM , Rating: 2
Because the Great British Empire collapsed long ago.

RE: Oh please
By Samus on 11/21/2007 10:54:50 AM , Rating: 2
You're acting like ignorant children. Many industrialized nations have embassy's in other countries. Sure, America is no exception, but I'd be willing to bet the UN has more embassy properties in Africa alone than the United States has in the entire world.

RE: Oh please
By Spuke on 11/21/2007 11:34:02 AM , Rating: 2
You're acting like ignorant children.
That's because they ARE ignorant children. Someone fed them a piece of info that shattered their reality and now they are angry at the world, so to speak. I understand, I've been there. But in my travels and growth I've come to the understanding that no one is innocent in these matters. Do a little research and you'll come to the same conclusion. We're all human and we mistakes on a grand scale from time to time. NO ONE is different.

RE: Oh please
By drank12quartsstrohsbeer on 11/21/2007 11:34:27 AM , Rating: 2
Remember people:

China has a HUGE trade surplus with the United States right now. They are sitting on hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars.

The Chinese government has the means to deal with this. They have chosen not to. This sort of thing is just another population control strategy.

RE: Oh please
By rudy on 11/21/2007 12:54:18 PM , Rating: 2
I agree its their job to take care of their people, they make billions off of the US in the form of jobs and exports to the US. In fact they make the crap and we are just sending it back to them. They make a trade by neclecting their peoples human rights and their own environement they can out compete US work forces money wise. In return their people will pay the price, maybe one day they will wake up and demand change. Until then it is their problem. If they do not spend some of the billions they are making dealing with these problems I do not feel sorry for them. However it does make me a little mad that I know most of what I wasted time recycling is probably just getting trashed.

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RE: Oh please
By Brandon Hill (blog) on 11/21/2007 10:08:01 AM , Rating: 2
I don't see how you're connecting tech trash to government aide.

That like saying that I'll donate some food to a homeless shelter... if the homeless come over to my house and do my yard work.

RE: Oh please
By OrSin on 11/21/2007 10:12:47 AM , Rating: 2
Its find to crap on them if they need aid from us? Lets start sending it to Isreal next. They get tons of aid from the US. You know what let ship it all to Michigan, they have 30% unemployment and make deal with the toxic waste. They are getting aid right?

This the most bais crap I heard in long time. Country that need aid are the one most likely to need help in dealing with toxin waste. I don't mind it out of the country but at least only ship to place that can actually handle it, or set up decent facilities that can.

RE: Oh please
By mdogs444 on 11/21/07, Rating: -1
RE: Oh please

Great point! :)

RE: Oh please
By Parhel on 11/21/2007 10:26:46 AM , Rating: 3
Hey, at least we're exporting something.

RE: Oh please
By iFX on 11/21/07, Rating: 0
RE: Oh please
By Parhel on 11/21/2007 12:17:01 PM , Rating: 2
Yes we do, we manufacture garbage. Not like that garbage that we import from China either, but genuine garbage. :)

RE: Oh please
By dosun on 11/22/2007 3:15:14 PM , Rating: 1
1- How do you know the group of people receiving the aid is the same group getting our e-trash thrown on them?

2- Assuming they are the same, how does giving them aid justify throwing trash on them?


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