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'60 Minutes': Crew comes under attack (Part 4)

Scott Pelley and his crew are attacked and threatened with violence by area gangsters who don't want the e-waste story told.

Tags: Crew, E-waste, Attack, CBS, 60 Minutes, toxic waste, Scott Pelley, gangsters

Videos 2008-11-10

'60 Minutes': Toxins inside your computer (Part 3)

Scientists discuss e-waste, the fastest-growing component of the municipal waste stream worldwide, and the impact it has on those whose lives depend on it.

Tags: Toxin, E-waste, Computer, Productivity, CBS, 60 Minutes, toxic waste, Scott Pelley, lead

Videos 2008-11-10

'60 Minutes': Walking through a toxic village (Part 2)

Piles of electronics blanket the Chinese countryside waiting to be recycled.

Tags: Minute, Electronics, CBS, 60 Minutes, toxic waste, Scott Pelley

Videos 2008-11-10

'60 Minutes': Cleaning up recycling (Part 1)

Scott Pelley takes a tour of GRX, a Denver electronic waste recycling company, that is a member of 'E-Stewards.' That's a stringent program run by a watchdog group, The Basel Action Network, to certify ethical recyclers who do not ship their toxic materials overseas.

Tags: Recycling, Scott Pelley, CBS, 60 Minutes, toxic waste

Videos 2008-11-10

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'60 Minutes': Powered by coal

Coal is America's most abundant and cheapest fossil fuel but, as Scott Pelley reports, burning it happens to be the biggest contributor to global warming.

Tags: Coal, CBS

Videos 2009-04-27

China and the e-waste industry it doesn't want you to see

60 Minutes this Sunday will air an interesting project--tracking e-waste from Denver to China to a refining center that's one "of the most toxic places on earth." Correspondent Scott Pelley and crew was jumped as they were recording a black market that was dismantling e-waste. Technically, these...

Tags: E-waste, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-07