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It's supposed to be illegal in the U.S. to sell e-waste to
another country. But other countries keep buying it.


Well, what are we supposed to do with it. We can't keep turning e-waste into
dildos. Even a slut like Raeanne will eventually find that she has enough
dildos, one for every occasion.

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On 15/02/2017 12:40 PM, Phoena Greene wrote:


"K Wills (Shill #3)" wrote in message
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It's supposed to be illegal in the U.S. to sell e-waste to
another country. But other countries keep buying it.


Well, what are we supposed to do with it. We can't keep turning e-waste
into
dildos. Even a slut like Raeanne will eventually find that she has enough
dildos, one for every occasion.


To quote the Bible:

Could American magicians turn all e-waste into bread?

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I see we have yet another rat in the woodpile.

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On 16/02/2017 5:38 AM, K Wills (Shill #3) wrote:

To quote the Bible:

Could American magicians turn all e-waste into bread?


Where within the Bible can this quote be found?
I'm going to go out on a limb and declare it's something you made
up.


Not an exact quote. Just google "turn stone to bread".


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On Thursday, February 16, 2017 at 9:09:49 AM UTC-5, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 15/02/2017 11:17 PM, wrote:
I see we have yet another rat in the woodpile.


If electronic devices couldn't be repaired, then they had to be
recycled, so as not to poison your air, soil, seas, rivers and
underground water.



I think you need to acquaint yourself with the term "elsewhere pollution". When the US EPA started regulating dumping, air quality and water quality, and when individual states began to realize that they also had to control such activities within their borders, Industry reared up on its hind legs like a threatened virgin, and whined about the costs involved and how many jobs would be lost as a result.

And, it is true that some of the most polluting industries did reduce in scope and volume, with primary reference to primary commodity or commodity-based uses - coal, steel, mining in general and similar. But as a brief visit to West Virginia will show, the worst of it continues to this day without let-up - although low natural gas prices are reducing the volume.

BUT - and as it really happens: Most of the jobs actually lost are due to automation, increased efficiency and better technique. One example: Lukens Steel - now AcelorMittal - operates the longest continuously operating steel mill in the US (206 years of continuous operation). It has produced roughly the same amount of plate annually for about the last 40+ years, but gone from approximately 3,000 workers to less than 800 in that time. Automation and efficiency. It has gone from burning coal to one (1) electric arc furnace. Cleaner.

And that is only one (1) example.

One more tiny example: Glassphalt - a glass based asphalt that can use glass that would be otherwise difficult to recycle in sufficient volumes to be efficient. It is still in use, depending on local economics, stone costs and applications. Point being, that if the US had to handle its electronic waste in a non-polluting way, it would figure it out - and some prices would rise as a result. However, it need not do so as the economics around that waste create sufficient demand *elsewhere* to cover the costs of getting it there.

We are sending our pollution to the Far East, Africa and other locations both in primary production and waste. But it is not as if those destinations are not asking for it, they are actually demanding it. A country that burns lignite as a primary power source, and dumps chemical wastes in its rivers without any sort of regulation, and dislocates tens of thousands of its people for petty, short-term eyewash purposes will not be concerned with a little more cyanide or a little more tricholoethane in its soil or water, for now anyway.

And that is the way of the world. Nobody does anything *TO* a country economically, short of a shooting war, that the country does not invite or demand. And China is certainly no exception to this. Start at home and ask what home-grown forces are doing before whining about what the rest of the world is doing 'to you'.

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On 17/02/2017 5:27 PM, K Wills (Shill #3) wrote:

Not an exact quote. Just google "turn stone to bread".


Why did you LIED and claim it was a quote when you knew it was
not a quote?


Only one word in that line was changed. Fair enough in my opinion.

Could you turn e-waste and dates (fruit) into bread?

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On Friday, February 17, 2017 at 6:48:20 AM UTC-5, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:


Hong Kong does not have that many scientists as in USA. The world is
depending on these clever, smart, brilliant scientists to recycle
e-waste.

I didn't know glass has asphalt.... so it's silly to blow glasses as a
job?


These smart, clever, brilliant scientists will solve that problem the moment that China, Africa et.al. stop buying it. Full stop.

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