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Green gadgets not always so eco-friendly

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Many could be radioactive:

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Radioactive girl. Photo:CC/claude estebe

Improper disposal of industrial equipment and medical scanners containing radioactive materials is letting nuclear waste trickle into scrap smelters, contaminating consumer goods, threatening the $140 billion trade in recycled metal and spurring the United Nations to call for increased screening.

via Bloomberg.com: News.


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