Thursday, June 26, 2008

Helping Poor Countries With Toxic Hand-Outs

I guess it's true that every seemingly worthless thing has value in someone's eyes - even if it's toxic. Apparently, a growing group of poor, developing countries are accepting 'toxic waste' from abroad (old computers, rusted ships, pesticides) even if they know the dangers such waste brings - basically because those countries want desperately to rise out of poverty and to give help to development.

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