I am pretty sure this company was the one featured on 60 minutes 3 years ago. These guys were having electronic recycling drives and saying that everything was going to be recycled in the good ole USA. So 60 minutes did a little follow up when it spotted an export container at there place of business. They followed the container to the port of LA then to Shanghai china. It was a 20 yard container stacked to the brim with CRT units. They then followed the container to where they were being broke down and recycled. It was insane to see how they recycled them. OPENLY MELTING LEAD in a huge WOK while a guy was standing over inhaling the fumes. They had piles of rubble and other burned and discarded e-waste. The streams were black that surrounded the place. Eventually some chinamen came along and asked the 60 minutes crew to leave. I can't remember if they were armed or not but they weren't playing around. I have seen a lot of stuff in my life as far as pollution and recycling but this was 1000 times worse then anything I can ever remember seeing. These guys deserve more then the punishment they are getting.
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