Basel Action Network (Producer). Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of

html The electronics industry is the world’s largest and fastest growing manufacturing industry, and as a consequence of this growth, combined with rapid product obso-lescence, discarded electronics or e-waste, is now the fastest growing waste stream in the industrialized world. (p. 5) Conversations among aging baby-boomer executives reveal the profound changes in technology that have transformed their professional and personal lives. From PCs to laptops to Palm Pilots, from CDs to DVDs to high-definition televi-sions, and from pagers to cell phones to digital cameras, we now live in a world where technology is part of our every waking moment. The benefits are wide-spread and have contributed significantly to productivity advancements through-out the developed world. Yet the dark side of technology is electronic waste or e-waste, which has become one of the most vexing environmental problems of the early 21st century. In the technical report and accompanying video by the same name (Exportin