More selfishness.

The article discusses the tremendous selfishness on the part of people in the United States in disposal of unwanted PCs and cell phones. The sheer volume of thrown-away high tech devices has become a serious threat to the environment. Worse still is the fact that people are only just starting to take the first small steps to face an issue that has been, out of self-interest, ignored by the computer industry and politicians for decades. The problem is that PCs and cell phones, along with products such as televisions, cause serious pollution because of the neurotoxins and carcinogens that are used and released in their production and released when they are disposed of. These pollutants include really serious long-term environmental concerns such as lead and beryllium that get carried into waterways and pollute the air through burning or dust released when high-tech products are broken up. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that high-tech products are responsible for about 40% of the lead in U.S. landfills. And that's just the disposal side of the equation.