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Out of 175 million computers comes a laundry list of toxins including 650 million pounds of lead, 987,000 pounds of cadmium and 231,000 pounds of mercury. (Florida Environmental Report, 2001)

Each CRT (Cathode-Ray Tube) contains four to six pounds of lead. (New York Times, November 23, 2000)

Between year 2000 and 2007, ...500 million personal computers became obsolete. In 1998 alone, 20 million computers were taken out of service, only 2.3 million were recycled." (New York Times, November 23, 2000)

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