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  • this song is awesome, anyone knows the name of it?

  • If people had to kill there own animals, more people would be vegitarian, if people had to keep all the things they bought, they wouldn't buy as much. Were in a very hypnotised nation, we all think everything is ok, but really the apocolypse has already begun.

  • Its there fault for having such low safety standards. If China was shipping the US all there computers at least we would have the common knowledge to protect ourselves from fumes and not dump waste in the river. All of these hazards are preventable.

  • @ichigoku322 That totally makes sense especially since it says right there they are DEVELOPING countries and might not be able to afford the equipment to maintain higher safety standards.

  • Wait why did I watch this?

  • Do you have a New Year Resolution for 2011? If you are a US American resident, please, please, please urge your Congressman or Congresswoman to support HR (House Resolution) 6252 - the Congressional bill to ban export of e-waste to developing countries!

  • I love this!!! we are also trying to explain the hidden environmental impacts of everyday things in our animations in the secret life of things animations

  • e-waste is bad

  • it makes me sick, and its the poor children in these poor countries that risk there health to sort out our shit, illegal trade goes on and without the world and the gouvernment making sure things like this dont happen, i dont no what more we can do i recycle all the timeand thats just my lil bit to help. the third worlds dont have enough money to live well and its wrong that our welth adds to all of this.

  • who gives a shit its just slowing the Inevitable which is its al going to be fucked up in the end so just come to piece with it for fuck sake your going to die and your going to be forgotten

  • Cobalt is radioactive? Our Science teacher let us touch a block of cobalt in metal form and its ok.

  • You guys know that those things are present in very small amounts, right? except for lead, which is used as solder, but still not that much. If it was THAT dangerous they wouldn't have made them out of these materials to begin with... >.>

  • Can anyone provide me with information on who to contact regarding getting permission to use this footage for a school project/business plan competition? We are interested in using the first 10 seconds of this clip for our submittal to the Dell Innovation Challenge.

  • The amount of barium found in computers isn't lethal. If you get an upper GI (Don't bother asking what GI stands for... It's hard to spell and idk) you drink a liquid that's 50% barium, 25% water and 25% malt. It's disgusting. You have to drink about 2 1/2 cups of it. It blows.

  • ok ive learned my lesson: stay away from technology, dont burn trash, & stop throwing my garbage in china!!! 5-stars

  • i dont mind cuz we wont survive so long anyway so "eat and drinc cuz tomorrow we will die.

  • @rockntroopen actually i hope you die in pain =)

  • 4 what point??? lol claim all the people in the world. solves nothing. congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Actually 'E-Waste' is banned from export... You have to have special permits to send it off... However, this doesn't mean that its not being done illegally...

  • wow your an idiot

  • Everyone buy apple! The bible has thousands of contradictions. And our water is clean in developed nations. One thing to ask is why we put the poison fluoride in our water. Research shows 1/3 of American kids have signs of fluoride poisoning and no connection to improved dental health. Yet government keeps it in because voters like yourself believe it helps. That is my main clean water objection.

  • many, perfectly wealthy, non-redneck, cities (in america) dont fluoride. and guess what? we/they have bad teeth by the average! :D facts - they execute your shit

  • Clayguy, go to school, listen, and stop being a dumbass. I think the slow class may fit you well.

  • Yea shut up. If our atmosphere was being destroyed, i think we could see the damage. Scientists proved that if the atmosphere had a single hole we would die within a month. I read that in science, read it online, read it everywhere! We dont have to be Asia! We're a different place and we do it differently! Why are we so worried that we're not like other people?? We never have been! Quit being dumb.

  • Well, im not disputing your arguement but you really have no idea what you're talking about. You cant put a hole in our atmosphere because you cant put a hole in anything in a gaseous state, it just doesnt work. If you are referring to the ozone layer, yes there is a hole in it and no it will not kill us in a month. The hole in the ozone has been there for many years, its not a myth and does have some observable damaging effects.

  • I hate evilutionists, I hate green people.

  • Im not an "evilutionist" or a green person, I was simply pointing out the stupidity of your statement.

  • Yea yea. blame my school work for that. And I DO believe in pollution, i just think its not THAT big of a deal. Its not killing us off. We SHOULD deal with it, but we dont need to make a religion out of it. Im a Christian by the way.

  • Dude it is killing us off, the underdeveloped country's populations get killed from pollution because they don't have the right things that developed countries have STILL people in developed countries are dying from pollution, animals are dying, the forests are getting choked, and btw i don't have a religion at all and i still think it IS a BIG deal.

  • why would you say you are a christian . you sound like the common know it all. statements back to questions back to statements but no solution

  • Stupid and christian.... tsk tsk tsk people like yourself, along with most other religious people, communists, obese people and aussie aboriginals should be put in a cage and thrown into the sea :)

  • oh really wanna fight me about that?

  • What religion? No I'm not up for a bible bash session, take your lies and false beliefs elsewhere.

    Or are you a filthy non-reflective POS?

  • @yesiamdaz i will

  • GO figure a dumb naive christian would think that pollution is not a big deal. So are you still one of those creationists that believe that the earth is only 5000 years old? And that Man walked with the dinosaurs?

  • 1100 actually. Yes. Yes I am, I'm proud of my God. You should ask God to be yours, repent, believe. Or in the last day you wont have the seal of God on your for-head on the last day. You wont be protected from the plagues, and will be thrown into the lake of fire.

  • 1100 actually what? Now you are saying that the earth is only 1100 years old? Please tell me thats not what you think.

  • No, i ment 11,000 im sorry.

  • the earth is 4,3 billion years old. look it up.

  • show me proof that its 11,000 years old.

  • sorry, evolution is true, you cant doubt dna evidence. no, dont bother debunking it with bullshit creation "scientists".

    no big deal, huh? 2 million die each year from air pollution. how about polluted water? its not killing you off cause you get clean water but even that clean water isnt clean completely. its a whole coctail of chemicals.

  • 1 last thing, if the world is 1,000,000,000s of years old, why is it blowing up NOW when it could have earlyer? Same fire smoke polution, wild fires. if all that nature pallution happened back then it should have blown up as soon as we made our pollution. If it started from a spec of dust, WTC!?! WTH?!!? WTS!? How did a planet come from that? Of course all evilutionists have differant theorys. Thats proof enough. Take a bbile, and try to find 1 fault in it. A christian bible.

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  • I can find one in the name.

  • *booty dances to the song*

  • OMg i was doing that too!

  • Damn yanks always killing stuff tbh pointless video to show what we allready know!! :P

  • you do realize that england does this exact same shit right?

  • BARRACK OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!

  • too much of one thing always kills.... this is way out of hand...

  • the crisis lives in america because amiland is POOOR! they dont own a government bank!

    So STFU!

  • amerika = the real evil!

  • Shaddup. You can't even spell it right, Nazi. :P

  • Dumbass.

  • kids....

  • ha i know

  • Send me all your old computers, I refit them to create large clusters that form the supercomputer formerly known as the google grid muahahha

  • and wtf do they use cobalt 27 for in electronic waste?

  • no its the produckt ,that can come out of burned computers ;)

  • my diesel truck blows more black smoke than them

  • media that matters ROFL.. i just put my electronic waste in a bag and through it in the trash pile that way i can get rid of it or ill have to drive 60 miles to take it to one that accepts electronic waste fuck that.

  • why doesn't the US send their used components to canada?

  • what would we do with it than?

  • recycle it like we already do

  • because it costs more money to send them THERE instead of to OLD and very poor countries where no big force exist!

  • I read an article that in some countries, people get money for stripping the copper out of the wires and other computer/electronics parts. The only problem is that they have to BURN the rubber that is fused to the copper, so they (usually kids) are breathing in the deadly black smoke...

    More people need to know about this so legislation is passed to save lives and the Earth...

  • at first i thought this was waste from e pills. lol

  • If only there was something someone in the UK could do to stop this happening in America... Or is that just jingoism?

  • Does this happen in the UK!?

  • I'm not entirely sure myself... The UK government will admit to these things, however they always think that we should have to find out for ourselves so that most people will never know about it, just like the building of a local power station in my area, or the 'amazing' benefits system -.-

  • Ha! You're telling me. Did you know england had a nuclear leak back in the 40's? And that America 'recycles' its nuclear waste by using it in park and playground and car park hardcore for paths and such? What sort of idiots run this fucking world?!

  • Hmmm I think I've heard bits here and there. None of it would suprise me though... They're the ones who refused alternative energy sources until they realised they can't hide the bad side effects to things such as dumping nuclear waste or oil running out/causing global warming. Hopefully things will get better within the next 20 years though, and if they don't, they're just shooting themselves in the foot really...

  • i hate people who just dump things everywhere!!!!!!! gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­osh!!!!!!!!

  • the fact that it's 500 km away from you does not mean that it's NOT HERE. you live in the same planet u hypnotized citizen. Use that thing which makes your head havier and it's called brain .

  • wow this sounds terrible even if it's not here.

  • If you were really green you would be Amish..

  • wow dont yall care about the Earth i might not be a tree huging hippy but i do smoke pot!!! lol !!!! but common lives could be at risk when we dump shi tlike that man... not kool see if you would like it if i gave your most loved one a pund of cobalt and shoved it up thier ass and down their throats woudld that be kool atleast its not dumping at my house!!!!! DUCHE BAGS!!!'

  • They would just poop it out dumbass.

  • If you smoke pot I think you should be concerned about what the hell your funding with your money first.

  • whats the song?

  • no one is saying that... its just saying that we can do a lot more to pervent this hazordous pollution affecting the native of many places

    its not saying go back in time its saying lets go forward and stop polluting when the smallest thigns can help so many people

    that kind of thinking you posess if very selfish and i hope humanity does better in the future

  • What is this song ?

  • Ugh, why do humans f*ck everything up?! You spend a couple hundred on a computer. You should be required to pay the additional $30 to recycle it properly. And shipping our shit to other countries is just messed up.

  • yeah, the world would be better off if everyone was a martian like you!

  • Not really, you do realize it gives millions, if not billions of jobs. True, they need to get their shit together, but this still provides a source of income to the developing nations. One way to fix this is simply making one big nation, but that's not happening anytime soon.

  • In Switzerland, we already have a system like this. If you buy a new fridge, you pay the recycling taxes.

  • More taxes? I'd rather pay more to buy a fridge which the company designed to be more enviromentally friendly in the first place.

  • We also do that. When you buy a more efficient fridge you pay less recycling taxes. This way you also safe money on the electric bill to. So generally, they push you to buy the best one on the market. I think this is a good systhem. So, in time, these nations will still have electric dump but less toxic. So their income would be the same, but they dont put their lives on the line. And maybe, they can somewhen buy a machine to do the toxic part... But only in Switzerland;-)

  • song?

  • i dont see the problem so i see positives lead for example that can damage reproductive organs thats a good thing for developing countries all they seem to do is have kids india is going to have a population BOOM in the next 15 years coz of the amount of babies born since 2000 you try and help the fuckers but they go and have more kids when they are ill already and there kids r starving and they increase the problem then they want more fucking help its bullshit

  • hahahaha so fuckin true!! thumbs up LOL.

  • That is the kind of response from a person who has probably never left the confines of their own country. Perhaps you should re-evaluate the facts my friend.

  • Yeah, seriousy. What a douche.

  • yes you are soo right ...theres already wayyy to many people as it is

  • well to bad it cost way too much to go to other countries greypuppet. not everybody can take vacations across the world

  • we (the "rich" people - us, eur, some asias...)

    should not forget: it´s especially us that pollute this planet most. you can say it in general: the richer you are the more you damage the global environment.

    rich people consume more, more in our days = more energy/waste. and it´s us, who want to have everything as cheap as possible. most stuff is produced by industry, industry just concentrates on money. they would/do poisen our countries too, but it´s just more expensive/ more forbidden...

  • It's scary how the little things we do fucks up our planet even more. Sure we could help a little by changing our ways, but that doesn't stop the planet's degradation. What we need is new technology, specifically in recycling!

  • it does exist...but it cost 30$ ..not 2 $ .... re-watch the video...

  • message was good music was horrible

  • Not my fault China can do shit for cheaper than the US... I'm going to turn my computer over to a company who always ships to China >:)

  • All the damages are just FLESH WOUNDS!

  • Ignorance must be blissful for you.

  • Ignorance must be blissful

  • SONG???!!!

  • nice what's the soundtrack ?

  • we need to pay more attention to what we do to this earth....people are always compaining about sicknesses that they can not cure and they dont know where they are comming from....MAYBE SOME OF IT CAN BE THIS SHIT....

    and instead of being ignorant, we should try to make a difference...its not that people are misinformed anymore, they are just lazy and refuse to do shit about it.

  • you have to realize that people these days are so ignorant

  • Thumbs up for this video. Keep the good work coming.

  • Love the song.!! Makes me feel like dancing. =] or walking like a Robot.

  • The video was weird..But the music was pro :D

  • lol. Other than that, you can get a 8 GB pendrive here for 17$ ;)

  • Whats the song? Its SICK!

  • Moral of the story, don't recycle because they just send it to asia?

  • more like, don't send them to the recycling station because they're too lazy to recycle them.

  • i think hes being sarcastic x] ^

  • not many people understand sarcasm

  • you know what why should any one care its never going to change we can try very hard but none of this is going to change AND IVE GOT ONE THING TO SAY: FUCK YOU LIBIRALS FUCK YOU!

  • lol if everybody thought and talked like you then the world of course will not change, that is how it happens, "lol, nothing will change its just 1 person" then 500 other poeple say the same and the list goes on, and that is how it starts

  • rights

  • accually e`waste is a HUGE part of our world...

    example:

    i buy a cell phone,

    i throw it away,

    some kid in ghana finds it.

    then he and his family break it apart and sell it at thei market.

    (THEY DO)

    they take the microchips out.

    and sell those.

  • You're a dumb ass you know that...

  • Because, douche, you can't concentrate ANY substance and dump it back into nature. Aspirin is found in nature, but it still isn't good for you to take an entire bottle to the face.

  • So ignorant... Well you know what they say "Ignorance is bliss", not knowing what's going on and the problem is very easy and well blissful. Did you even watch the video? Check 1:03 it's good you're watching this. It's harmful because in simplest terms:

    -we import goods to asia

    - they break it apart and burn the e-waste

    - this causes hazards to their health

    - the burning of the chemicals also pollutes the air and river

    - the animals drink the river water

    -we eat diseased animals

  • well it is generaly from the earth but then it goes through a manufacturing proces witch makes it bad then .

  • This was a really slick film that blithely sidestepped the issue of actually supplying sources. There was far too much vague language, not enough concise evidence for the manner in which E-waste is generally disposed of in developing countries.

  • I'm glad that we recycled our old computer!!

  • One is ok two is fine three is enough.

  • this is true

  • lol, i just watched that before this one too...

  • I didnt know this!

  • Here's something else you can do: STOP CONSUMING!!

  • i found it pretty informative.... i had not known any of this, especially the poisons and toxins

  • UUH I don't know the ppl who actually care for this planet. Rather then lifeless cold-hearted humans(They mite not be humans considering in pollution >_>)Like you. DUH do the math :o

  • UUH I don't know. Maybe the people who actually care for this world. Unlike lifeless cold-hearted humans (They mite not be humans considering pollution) Like yourself. DO THE MATH :O.

  • the very saddest thing about this all is that the people in the third world would rather get cancer and make what little money they can off these cpus then have them be recycled properly. given the choice would you chose cancer or starving your children???? The world is not that simple people.

  • It's a valid point as crude recycling has helped people break out of poverty and has even become the backbone of some state economies in China. Pretty heavy ethical dilemma

  • i agree with SBurgler, it is a tough dilemma. but we can find another way to recycle these things. were smart enough dont you agree?

  • yes we are, but our laziness overides those decicions most of the time, and greed has alot to do with these things also, the easy-quick buck is better then thinking for 5 mins...

  • People in the 1st world got to where they are now by destroying the environment, why should we not allow the 3rd world the oppertunity to do the same?

  • I'm adding this to my fave videos.

  • the planet is in trouble.

  • that vid about the fat kid is sad plz right back and telll me idf it is real

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  • its our world in the end that's getting polluted and we're essentially killing ourselves and the planet. understand?

  • How dumb are you? First of all what you are saying is selfish. Second of all, it will affect us too.

  • it would be poetic justice if you died of adverse effects due to pollution

  • haha.

  • Your not smart are you? We have only one planet! Please don't say "We found another planet" Because I know the science ppl did but we can't get there. Over all the waste goes into the air and water... we drink water we get the poulion in out system we die. We eat food from what we pick off of the ground when we grow it(It's also goes into the ground) we die. Many more things

  • WHAT NEW PLANET???

  • really ? xD

  • in the end thir problems are ours,babe...

  • the computers at the end are apples.

  • Any one knows the name of this music?

  • you sound like George Bush. shame on you.

  • He speaks the truth though.

  • It's the secret account of Goerge Bush! To cover!

  • he he thats funny but still shut the fuck up ...hehe

  • TERRIBLE