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Article: Save our planet
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- New Straits Times
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- May 31, 2007
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Siti Syameen Md Khalili
New Straits Times
05-31-2007
Save our planet
Byline: Siti Syameen Md Khalili
Edition: Main/Lifestyle
Section: Tech & U; Notebook
YOU may not realise it, but every tech gadget "wishes" for a green "death" - not for its own sake, but rather, for the benefit of the future of its human users.
Tech gadgets are born with cadmium and lead in their batteries, mercury in their bulbs and lamps plus hexavalent chromium, brominated flame retardants and polychlorinated biphenyls scattered elsewhere within their bodies. Hazardous materials, if not properly managed, can lead to serious deterioration of quality of life on a global level.
Landfills are not the only spots where ...