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India Serving as a Dumpsite for E-waste While Scheming USA Violates Regulations
According to a report in Scientific American, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) knows that most of the 1.9 million tons (1.7 million metric tons) of discarded cell phones, computers and televisions, among other electronic goods, went into landfills overseas, because those are the agency's own figures.
The EPA also knows that this so-called e-waste contains cadmium, mercury and other toxic substances, and it is responsible for making sure that lead-laden monitors and television sets with cathode-ray tubes (CRT) are disposed of properly and the parts recycled.
But, congressional investigators charge that the EPA has failed to even attempt to clean up the mess-or keep it in check.
The agency has "no plans and no timetable for developing the basic components of an enforcement strategy," concludes a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congress's investigative arm.
GAO official John Stephenson testified at a House hearing that his investigators had posed as would-be buyers of CRT waste in Hong Kong, India, Pakistan, Singapore and Vietnam and found at least 43 recyclers willing to export the toxic e-waste from the U.S. in direct violation of EPA regulations.
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