This may have unexpected complications
Posted Jul 21, 2005 8:03 UTC (Thu) by
xoddam (subscriber, #2322)
Parent article:
Bluescreen welcomes Jettisoned / Old / Unused PCs
Such enterprises may find themselves up against the Basel Convention. (Here is the official site). You're exporting hazardous wastes.
Australian Government crackdown on e-waste exports:
"Australia had been exporting used electronic equipment worth about $20 million a year in increasingly large volumes to China, India and other Asian countries for scrap metal recovery or refurbishment and then resale.
"There was increasing concern that such exports breached legal obligations under the Basel Convention, which required signatories to ensure that hazardous wastes were not exported unless they could be managed safely in the importing country."
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