When you recycle or toss that old Mac, what really happens to it?It’s clear that the real environmental hazards of consumer electronics come not from using them but from disposing of them. As Jim Puckett, the founder of the Basel Action Network (BAN) recycling watchdog group puts it, “It just so happens that the most benign part of a product’s lifecycle is when it’s sitting on your desk. That happens in rich countries. The ugly parts of the lifecycle, the dirtier parts, the production and the waste, happen in developing countries.”
