{"id":293,"date":"2003-12-16T08:02:37","date_gmt":"2003-12-16T13:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/12\/16\/bbc-on-indias-computer-waste\/"},"modified":"2006-12-15T23:24:46","modified_gmt":"2006-12-16T04:24:46","slug":"bbc-on-indias-computer-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/12\/16\/bbc-on-indias-computer-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC on India&#8217;s Computer Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a238'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article I got from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arstechnica.com\">ArsTechnica<\/a>.   India seems to be having a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/3307815.stm\">growing problem<\/a> of computer waste from their IT boom.\n<\/p>\n<p>Obligatory comments:<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nThirty million computers are thrown out every year in the US alone, and many are dumped in India and China.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n In Europe, manufacturers will have to eliminate such harmful substances inside the machines by 2006.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\nPersoanlly I think computer waste is going to become a big problem in the future.   Until more people work on figuring out how to recycle these things in a nice manner&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article I got from ArsTechnica. India seems to be having a growing problem of computer waste from their IT boom. Obligatory comments: Thirty million computers are thrown out every year in the US alone, and many are dumped in India and China. &#8230; In Europe, manufacturers will have to eliminate such harmful substances inside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}