E-waste contains over 1,000 different chemical toxicants. You think these chemicals are properly certified, tested and controlled? Think again. “Even in the US, the country that tracks the largest number of pollutant releases, fewer than 1% of all chemicals tested and found toxic are tracked,” scientist Josh Lepawsky told me. In south east Asia, water carries the toxins from the e-waste dumps far and wide. Lead, copper, cadmium, chromium, nickel and manganese seep into the rice crops.
