Australia’s ABC News reports that for the second time this year, factory workers allegedly assembling displays for Apple devices have been sickened by exposure to n-hexane, a harmful chemical. “My hands were numb. I could hardly walk,” says one worker.
The toxic red sludge spill in Hungary that killed four people on Monday could take a year to clean up, authorities there said. Meanwhile, workers are still trying to stop the spill from spreading to the Danube and Raba rivers.
At least that’s what the creator of this product hopes your child will say when they get these crayons, which are labelled with the actual chemical used to give each coloured wax stick its hue.
Next time your Wiimote accidentally gets thrown into your LCD TV, don’t fret too much – chemicals found in the broken TV sets could be used to fight infections in the human body.
The NYT just visited the Impossible Project, a group of Polaroid lovers (which include Dutch scientists), who dedicate their time in bringing back Polaroid film.
60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley went to Guiyi, China to document the lives of Chinese e-waste workers there. He was able to get footage of what these pits, which process much of the toxic electronic scrap we in the West throw away, look like–despite being jumped by angry e-waste lot owners and nearly having his camera confiscated.
