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SVTC Nanotechnology Report:
Regulating Emerging Technologies in Silicon Valley and Beyond
On April 2nd, the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC) released a
report exposing the potentially catastrophic impact on your health and
environment of a nanotechnology industry that runs unchecked.
According to Sheila Davis, SVTC's Executive Director, "The current
landscape with respect to environmental knowledge about nanotechnology
is eerily similar to the landscape of the 60s for basic chemicals.
Regulation is not up to snuff, we lack monitoring and detection
technology, and cleanup practices have not been established."
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Check Out The Story of
Stuff
| The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and
consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social
issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you
laugh and it just might change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever. |
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Tune In!
Did you know that in 2009, when the analog to digital switchover takes place, around 80
million televisions might not work without a special converter box? What kind of waste will this add? Take Action!
Living in Fear: A Story of E-Waste Pollution on the Erren River in Taiwan
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Discarded circuit boards stacked along the banks of the Erren
River in Taiwan. | |
The Erren River should saunter sweetly through Tainan and Kaohsiung counties, past the city of Tainan,
and into the South China Sea on its 65 km journey across southern Taiwan. However, activities along its banks have
degraded this river to a foul flow of pollutants bordered by eight-foot-high walls of stripped electronic circuit
boards as a result of illegal electronic waste recycling operations.
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