Obsolete gadgetry can pile up, contributing to pollution.
CHRISTMAS gifts of yesteryear meet an inglorious end at Absolute Green Electronics Recycling in Lake Forest, California. Computers are dismantled, the parts sorted into cardboard bins. One holds nothing but hard drives, another AC adapters. Bins stretch in rows across a mammoth warehouse – a bin for graphic cards, a bin for cooling fans, also cellphones, VHS camcorders, digital cameras, cables, network switches.
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