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title: Tracking America’s Electronic Waste — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/tracking-americas-electronic-waste/
date: 2016-05-15
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# Tracking America’s Electronic Waste

You buy a new phone or computer and you take your old one to a local recycler. It’s the green thing to do, right? Well, it turns out a lot of those devices may not be getting recycled at all. The United States is the single largest producer of electronic waste, generating almost 8 million tons a year. Our EarthFix team follows the e-waste trail.