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8. GrassRoots Recycling Network (2003), 'EPA: keep toxic PC's out of Asia', 6 July, Madison, WI: GRRN.

9. Jim Puckett interview with the author, 5 March 2002. For an excellent analysis of the problem of global

environmental inequality see Peter Newell (2005), 'Race, class, and the global politics of environmental
inequality,' Global Environmental Politics , 5 (3), 70-94.

10. Neil Gough (2002), 'Garbage in, garbage out: casto ff s from the computer age are a fi nancial windfall for

Chinese villagers. But at what cost?', Time Asia , 11 March.

11. BAN & SVTC, Exporting Harm .

12. The Times of India Online (2004), “NGO sounds e-waste alert,” 16 March.

13. Quoted in 'India: Fears that IT hub Becoming Electronic Waste Dump', Asia Paci fi c, http://www.abc.net.

au/ra/asiapac/programs/s 886414.htm, accessed on 29 July 2003.

14. Seema Kamdar (2004), 'E-waste gives citizens a big headache', India Times News Network , 19 July.

15. Toxics Link India (2003), Scrapping the Hi-tech Myth: Computer Waste in India ,New Delhi, India, p. 5.

16. Ibid., p. 6.

17. Kishore Wankhade (2004), 'British Environment Agency report reveals 23,000 tons of e-waste being ille-

gally exported to developing nations,

including India', Toxics Link, New Delhi, 17 December,

http://www.toxicslink.org/mediapr-view.php?pressrelnum=18. For the de nitive text on the politics of the

Basel Convention see Jennifer Clapp (2001), Toxic Exports: The Transfer of Hazardous Wastes from Rich
to Poor Countries , Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

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18. Wankhade, 'British Environment Agency report'.

19. Ibid.

20. BAN & SVTC, Exporting Harm ,p.8.

21. Stella Capek (1993), 'The “environmental justice” frame: a conceptual discussion and an application',

Social Problems , 40 , 5-24.

22. Computer TakeBack Campaign, 'The Solutions'.

23. GrassRoots Recycling Network, 'EPA: keep toxic PC's out of Asia'.

24. John Vidal (2004), 'They call this recycling, but it's really dumping by another name', The Guardian ,21

September.

25. Smith et al., Challenging the Chip .

26. Ted Smith, interview with the author, Spring 2002.

27. SVTC, Poison PCs and Toxic TVs ,p.18.

28. Vidal, 'They call this recycling'.

29. See Schnaiberg and Gould (2000), Environment and Society: The Enduring Con fl ict ,West Caldwell, NJ:

Blackburn Press.

30. The Guardian (2003), 'The e-waste land', 30 November.

31. Basel Action Network (2005), The Digital Dump: Exporting Re-use and Abuse to Africa , 24 October.

32. Reuther, 'Spheres of in fl uence'.