Book Review: High Tech Trash

A review of Elizabeth Grossman’s High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health has been posted in the book reviews section of the website. Grossman’s book provides an incredibly important examination of the environmental impacts of computers and other high tech electronics and presents a compelling case for the need to lessen the ecological footprint of electronic devices. Grossman offers a detailed look at the materials, chemicals, and processes that go into manufacturing electronics as well as how discarded electronics are handled.