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metales preciosos de los residuos electrónicos

http://www.elpais.cr/frontend/noticia_detalle/5/61193

Legislació internacional

Extret d'una pàgina web nordamericana, es fa un breu resum de la legislació en matèria d'aparells electrònics arreu del món.


http://www.sustainelectronics.illinois.edu/policy/international.cfm

More information on:

http://svtc.org/wp-content/uploads/bfr_report_pages1-43.pdf

The list of toxic components in computers includes:
• Computer circuit boards containing heavy metals such as lead & cadmium
• Computer batteries containing cadmium
• Cathode ray tubes with lead oxide & sometimes barium
• Brominated flame-retardants used in printed circuit boards, cables and plastic casing.
• Poly Vinyl Chloride (PVC) coated copper cables and plastic computer casings that
release highly toxic dioxins & furans when burned
• Mercury switches
• Mercury in flat panel screens
• Poly Chlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) present in older capacitors & transformers

from:

Poison PCs and Toxic TVs (document força antic)
http://svtc.org/wp-content/uploads/ppc-ttv1.pdf

Sillicon Valley Toxics Coallition

http://svtc.org/

What's in electronic devices. Greenpace.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/toxics/electronics/the-e-waste-problem/what-s-in-electronic-devices/

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/publications/reports/not-in-our-backyard/