'60 Minutes' story on Englewood recycling firm termed 'absolutely unfair'
By Todd Hartman, Rocky Mountain News
Published November 11, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.
Photo by Ken Papaleo / The Rocky
James Hunter takes apart a computer at Executive Recycling in Englewood last fall around the time of the 60 Minutes report.
Brandon Richter woke up Monday morning with his life turned upside-down.
The night before, his business, Executive Recycling of Englewood, was the centerpiece of a 60 Minutes report tying his firm to the illegal shipping and dumping of toxic electronic leftovers in a polluted Chinese town.
Richter, who called the report "absolutely unfair," spent all morning on the phone. He got calls from clients, supporters, the media - even satellite radio's Howard Stern. He seemed so anxious to clear his company's name he offered a tour to a reporter who walked unannounced into his Englewood shop.
The 60 Minutes piece by reporter Scott Pelley said the CBS news show tracked a shipment of electronic waste from Richter's firm to a Hong Kong harbor. Inside the shipping container, Pelley's report said, were a load of cathode-ray tubes, or CRTs, from computer monitors. CRTs are loaded with lead.
According to the report, the shipment was intercepted by Hong Kong customs, flagged as waste, and sent back to Executive Recycling.
The report included a classic 60 Minutes moment, with Pelley confronting Richter with photos of the shipping container at Executive Recycling and asking him why a waste shipment wound up in Hong Kong.
"I have no clue," Richter told Pelley.
It's the same thing he said Monday. Richter contends the shipping container in question was loaded with hundreds of working TVs and computer monitors - $6,200 worth - ordered by a woman in Vancouver, British Columbia, to be shipped to Hong Kong. Richter provided a copy of an invoice with the order.
The equipment had been tested, and the computers had their memory cleaned by Executive Recycling, a key part of the firm's business, said Richter and his vice president, Tor Olson, during a tour of the plant.
But according to 60 Minutes, it arrived as waste. Richter said he was baffled.
"They were tested, working monitors," Richter said. "(The woman in Vancouver) paid me $6,200 for this. If she was going to pay me $6,200 for this, why would it go overseas to be broken down - there was value in this material . . . it makes no sense somebody would pay me for waste."
The 60 Minutes report didn't show what was in the container when it was inspected by Hong Kong customs but did show a picture of an X-ray of the container taken by U.S. Customs.
It's hard to make out what's inside, but it appears to be boxes filled haphazardly with funnel-shaped cathode-ray tubes. The items don't appear to be neatly stacked monitors and TVs - what you'd expect for items intended to be sold for reuse.
Documents supplied by Richter list a woman named Karen Zhang of Vancouver as requesting the shipment. Adding to the puzzle, documents with Zhang's name describe the contents of the containers as "plastic scrap."
Richter said he believes that description was used as a way to get the shipment through customs. But that doesn't explain why the container appeared to be filled with CRTs instead of TVs and computer monitors.
Experts say electronics recycling is plagued with inconsistent government oversight, confusing regulations, and a patchwork of private-sector certifications.
Dag Adamson, who runs LifeSpan Technology Recycling, another electronics recycler in the Denver area, was concerned about the transaction.
"Working with someone you don't know (who is) saying, 'I'm going to take a whole bunch of low-value commodity, classify it as something else - that would be dubious," Adamson said, referring to the apparent purchaser of the materials mislabeling the shipment as plastic scrap.
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November 11, 2008
12:30 a.m.
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November 11, 2008
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Deane Martin, Langara’s building
services manager, said the college’s old
computers are donated to Computers
for Schools, a volunteer organization
that collects, repairs, and delivers old
computers to schools, public libraries,
and nonprofit organizations across Can-
ada.
“The trashy ones are picked up by a
recycling company that breaks the com-
ponents down and shreds the plastic for
recycling,” Martin said.
“They send the motherboards to the
States to recover the gold and metal and
then the plastic is ground.”
Martin said Electronics Recycling
Canada, gathers Langara’s electronic
waste on an as needed basis.
The collected motherboards are sent
to Vietnam, because that is where the
company’s processor is located, said
Karen Zhang, an employee of Electron-
ics Recycling
November 11, 2008
4:19 a.m.
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roger44 writes:
60 minutes used to be credible, but they are grasping at straws to put a show together.
November 11, 2008
4:52 a.m.
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nmbronco1 writes:
Watch the "60 Minutes" segment before claiming this was "sensationalist" reporting. The pictures were clear, as was the US Customs x-ray. Richter doesn't have a logical answer for the questions - which should indicate something is wrong to anyone with even a modicum of common sense. The saddest part of the story was seeing the miserable and toxic conditions the Chinese workers endured while "recycling" material from old electronics.
November 11, 2008
5:32 a.m.
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JimmyTheSaint writes:
Yeah, everyone who's ever been popped on 60 Minutes was "innocent", Honey. Or at least claimed to be. Still the most respected news show on the air.
Grasping at straws? These past 2 seasons have been consistently good, which says something since it's the longest running show on television.
November 11, 2008
6:23 a.m.
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vudumom writes:
He said the report was "absolutely unfair". It's what he didn't say that was more compelling. How about "absolutely untrue", big difference.
November 11, 2008
6:30 a.m.
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HolierThanThou writes:
Where did you guys ever get the idea that the waste disposal industry was run by innocent Boy Scouts?
If you don't remember Love Canal or Times Beach here's a link to a history of Times Beach http://www.legendsofamerica.com/MO-Ti...
Conservatives like to thumb their noses at environmentalists and new reporters until they find the family pet poisoned to death in the back yard. On the other hand, if it weren't for the effects of lead poisoning on the brain there might not be any conservatives at all.
November 11, 2008
7:25 a.m.
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denverinfidel writes:
So Holier - what happens to your used up electronic gadgets? How do you verify they don't end up like the one's in this example?
This "waste" could have stayed here and been dealt with in a rational way. Instead, we ship it to the third world because you loons refuse to approach the environment in any sensible way.
Kind of like oil production. Or do you not use any of that evil stuff either?
The most pathetic aspect is that you write this garbage while sitting at a computer screen. Could you be a bigger hypocrite?
November 11, 2008
7:37 a.m.
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acm writes:
My favorite part was when Richter accused Pelley of systematically picking on small business.
November 11, 2008
7:53 a.m.
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dlwr writes:
What a shame...poisoning people in a poor country, while lying to people trying to get rid of their garbage...all to make money. I saw the show. We were trying to get computers and monitors to send to a church...we would have loved to get that garbage. Nicer monitors than what I use at home and work. Let me know when the next recycle day is...I'll come shopping.
November 11, 2008
7:56 a.m.
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mt writes:
When did China become third world? Why does everyone here in the US care what happens to China when we have plenty of problems of our own that could use the attention.
November 11, 2008
8:38 a.m.
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The_Punnisher writes:
I've been in the recycling business for 40 years. I started out by pulling radios out of cars at a salvage yard for 50 cents apiece.
Do you know that the Japanese auto industry was built on OUR recycled scrap cars????
We used to reclaim copper wire by burning it, we used to recycle car batteries by smelting them for the lead. We have come a long way from those days; but remember WE did similar things in the past.
But we LEARNED from our mistakes! China and other third world countries will have the same learning curve, THEY HAVE THEIR OWN GOVERNMENTS and LAWS.
So before we start pointing fingers, how many of YOU recycle by buying USED instead of NEW??
I haven't bought a new computer, car or house in all this time. I've also purchased a rural area with RENEWABLE trees that has reduced my " carbon footprint "; it takes 7 ACRES of trees to balance your oxygen requirements ( but not your car ) so I am covered, so how about YOU???
This looks like more sensationalism, less like reporting.
The only thing ER needs to address is the fact that they do not allow local pickups anymore; I have rebuilt and sold quite a few pieces of their equipment when they allowed local pickups.
So frequent the MANY recycled dealers for your computer and other consumer goods, you just might be doing yourself AND our planet a favor....
November 11, 2008
8:49 a.m.
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November 11, 2008
9:05 a.m.
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JB writes:
Well, if this guy had an explaination, that would be one thing. 60 Minutes had PROOF, he just has "this is totally unfair" Yeah, I'm sure that you think it's totally unfair that you got caught.
If this was innaccurate, one would think a responsible business owner would be able to produce accurate records to prove otherwise. Instead, you sent something through customs classified as something it was not. Isn't that a crime as well?
November 11, 2008
9:22 a.m.
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The_Punnisher writes:
Sending stuff improperly labeled through customs has always been a problem; TAXES ( call them what you will ) are based on the value of the items and evading taxes by ANYONE is a long tradition..
That is why people on eBay will NOT relabel or misidentify what they have sold to out of country purchasers; you see that disclaimer on most commercial sites...
This may be the case here; someone just trying to avoid the DUTY on a shipment of computer parts....
But that may not be the reason, BUT IT IS A POSSIBILITY!!!
No apology, I'm just stating a possibility based on my experience..
November 11, 2008
9:23 a.m.
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ParkHillPosse writes:
Yeah, always best to blame the media for "sensationalism." It must be all those east coast media "elites".
November 11, 2008
9:37 a.m.
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mytwosense writes:
I didn't watch the show in question, so have no opinion on it's accuracy or lack thereof. I will state that it's not just the electronic waste disposal industry that is sending their toxic materials to foreign countries. They do it with "retired" ships, too. I believe there are entire harbors in India filled with rusty, leaky ships that are taken apart by local workers. Not much, if any safety regulations exist to protect them or the water from toxic waste.
Part of the problem is just that there's so much waste to recycle and break down. It's definitely not a tightly regulated process, and there are probably, as the article above states, a patchwork of regulations that confuse the whole process.
The owner in Englewood could just be a victim of this confusion, and if that's the case, hopefully he'll have a chance to clear his name. He appears to be very accessible to the media at the moment, instead of referring everyone to his lawyers or refusing to answer his phone. That does say something.
November 11, 2008
9:50 a.m.
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ObiWan writes:
You can find an embed of the 60 minutes video at:
www.completecolorado.com
November 11, 2008
9:55 a.m.
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newsjunkie writes:
to those of you attacking 60 Minutes - one of the most respected news programs in the history of the industry - why don't you view the piece first before launching your attacks, hmmmm? I saw it and it was pretty straightforward. this CEO was busted and he knew it - so pathetic and typical to whine about the media picking on "small businesses . . . " waaaaaaaaahhh. so since when do small businesses get a pass when it comes to following the law and conducting your transactions in an ethical manner. what a big baby - he's only making things worse with his whining. he's just sore that he got caught. notice how he does not deny what 60 Minutes discovered is false??? he just says he does not know how that happened (and when have we heard that before??) and it's "unfair" to call him out for it. please. 60 Minutes was obviously tipped off to something shady going on at this company - why else would they decide to follow a bin of waste all the way to Hong Kong??? b/c they knew there was a story there. businesses - both large and small - QUIT blaming the media for your own failings and your own violations of the law and human decency. Thank you, to 60 Minutes, for the insightful, aggressive reporting. let me ask you this - who else is going to keep these a**holes honest if not the media???
November 11, 2008
10:12 a.m.
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FlyfishDude52 writes:
newsjunkie - I think there is a lot to blame on the media.
However, it's not the expose of a small company in the Denver area. There's too much smoke in what was presented by 60 minutes for there to be no fire. The guy never denied it, just whines about getting caught. There's another posibility that the Canadian woman was up to some shenanigans & he is truly innocent. I think this is unlikely for all the whoops that you have to jump through in the import/export business.
BTW - China is a 3rd world country though they now have vast holdings in the US. And the rest of my opinion is summed up quite well by ssqued's 8:56 post
November 11, 2008
10:25 a.m.
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mojambo writes:
He claims nobody would pay for "waste," yet this E-waste is lucrative enough that it pays his bills.
He's lying - period
November 11, 2008
10:35 a.m.
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joggle writes:
JimmyTheSaint: "which says something since it's the longest running show on television."
Sorry to pick a nick, but Meet the Press is the longest running show on television (by far, coming on the air 51 years ago). 60 Minutes is the longest running show in prime time though (it's their 40th anniversary). I think the shows compliment each other well. Meet the Press asks the hard questions to our political leaders but doesn't do any investigative journalism (other than thoroughly researching the people that come on their show in order to throw their own words in their faces and make them either defend those words or disavow them). 60 Minutes focuses on investigative journalism and covers topics not covered by Meet the Press.
Other news programs I would highly recommend are Washington Week, The McLaughlin Group and The News Hour with Jim Lehrer (I only watch his show on Friday since it recaps the week's news).
November 11, 2008
10:37 a.m.
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Link writes:
I wonder if this will affect the global price of sesame chicken.
November 11, 2008
10:37 a.m.
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newsjunkie writes:
so it's up to the gov't to demonstrate right and wrong to business leaders - they can't figure it out for themselves? that's a new excuse I have not heard before.
Flyfish if you believe the story about some mystery woman in Canada - I've got some swampland in Florida to sell you.
sure the media is not without fault in too many respects to count. um, but not here. it was a very well-researched and comprehensive story by 60 Minutes. and i say "good work, Scott Pelley."
November 11, 2008
10:46 a.m.
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newsjunkie writes:
honest mistake perhaps? I don't think so - once again, do you think 60 Minutes just picked out a bin of waste at random and followed it to Hong Kong on a whim??? they were tipped off that this company was a flagrant offender so they decided to check it out for themselves.
November 11, 2008
10:49 a.m.
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mikeb213 writes:
Ok so there are a lot of you who think that this particular company has done a lot of things wrong here. I would like to paint a picture for you so you might understand a bit better why I think he wouldn't know what was going on with one shipment. Lets say for the sake of argument that he has say 50 employees. Now lets also say he has his warehouse set up so there is a shipping area, a receiving area, an are to breakdown the electronics and an office area. So his employees are going about there day doing there jobs. They get orders to break down plastics, and metals. The receiving dept gets stuff in and it goes in a que to be sorted. The shipping department receive orders to send parts all over the place. In one day lets say the shipping dept sends out 50 orders all over the world. Thats a lot of orders going out all the time every day. I would think they ship to individual buyers, and companys all over the place. Now lets say that Mr. Richter the owner of the company is hosting a recycling event that is not at the office. Its on a Saturday for example. He has this 60 minutes guy come up to him and ask him about 1 shipment that went to Hong Kong. How would the CEO of a company know what every department is doing at all times? I would think that he would hire a staff he would trust to do there jobs so he doesn't have to micromanage. With that many things going on at once it would be close to impossible to know every single thing that was going on at once. Thats why you would have managers in each dept doing there jobs. I mean really what if you looked at a huge company like Qwest. Does the CEO know what a field tech is doing right now? Does he know what deal a Retail associate just closed on? Now one last question, what if someone from Canada ordered a bunch of monitors from you and said that they were for a company that they run in both Hong Kong and Canada. This went threw your sales dept, then on to shipping and out the door. How would anyone know that the people who ordered it were not going to use it for computer screens in there office? I also never heard 60 minutes say that the order sent from this Denver company was going to the town they showcased in there news story. They only said it was going to Hong Kong. Food for thought here people.
November 11, 2008
11:06 a.m.
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November 11, 2008
11:37 a.m.
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newsjunkie writes:
yeah, what a coincidence - the one lone bin 60 Minutes decides to track - turns out to be one that is headed to Hong Kong to be broken down and the waste to be illegally dumped?!?! oh, oops - just some rogue staff member who wasn't being micromanaged! yep, this poor CEO just could not have known this sort of thing was going on.
Please.
go back and read - or better yet, view the story. they didn't just say it was going to Hong Kong - they actually tracked it 7000+ miles there - they tracked it through the x-ray which demonstrated it was waste - it was flagged and shipped back.
November 11, 2008
11:51 a.m.
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Mtnsjohn writes:
Richter would have to be stupid to supply the name of the woman in Canada if she didn't exist. She just might be in business in Canada supplying computers to customers and then doing her own exporting of used equipment for recycling to China. So Richter might just be innocent if she replaced his stuff with hers.
On the other hand, Richter and Karen Zhang might be partners in crime. If Zhang gets caught, she blames Richter, and if Richter gets caught he blames Zhang.
Anyone remember when 60 Minutes first aired on TV? What was the Rock and Roll hit that was their opening theme? Answer: Jumpin' Jack Flash by the Rolling Stones.
November 11, 2008
11:56 a.m.
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Mtnsjohn writes:
From Google:
Karen Zhang
Electronics-Recycling Micronutrients Combined Metals Industries Inc.
(PCB and Metals Recycling)
#120-13065 84th Ave
Surrey, BC
Canada, V3V 3S1
www.electronics-recycling.com
November 11, 2008
11:56 a.m.
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The_Punnisher writes:
When you start realizing how much that ILLEGAL ALIEN is costing the US CITIZEN, this toxic waste problem is a minor problem.
I stand by my comments. Too bad other people don't.
November 11, 2008
12:19 p.m.
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newsjunkie writes:
Punnisher - minor problem, hmmm? tell that to the impoverished Chinese who are forced to earn a meager living by working in those toxic dumps - slowly being poisoned to death each day.
November 11, 2008
1:42 p.m.
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FlyfishDude52 writes:
newsjunkie - You may want to note that I suggested it unlikely that the canadian woman was complicit in this. As I noted there's too much smoke for there not to be a fire nearby.
I would, also, like to add that this type of thing has been going on forever. re: Weaver Electric shipping containers full of transformer oil with PCB's to New Mexico 10-20 years ago. Imagine that; right here in river city!
All of you can probably remember their city dump, now called land-fills? Everyone threw everything away. Of course there weren't so many plastic products back then & we all saved a lot of what is now junk or, even worse, recycleable materials.
Question. How many know where to dispose of their spent batteries? Rechargeable and not?
punisher - try to stay lucid. Maybe your meds aren't working & you need a new prescription.
November 11, 2008
2:08 p.m.
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The_Punnisher writes:
Ahh, we are the GOVERNMENT for the whole world. The comments here don't place the problem where it lies. A little fact that WE IN THE US DON'T MAKE CHINESE LAW!!
Time to get real. If it was such a problem with the Chinese people THE GOVERNMENT THEY KEEP IN POWER would change the laws and WE would have to deal with the problem. You know,good old AMERICAN ingenuity! ( we still have that, or do we ? )
November 11, 2008
2:19 p.m.
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The_Punnisher writes:
As to the ILLEGAL ALIEN issue, we have had the laws on the books, we have had to deal with these types of INVASIONS before, wars have been started over less. In fact, what is so special about TODAY??? Why are government offices closed? Note that I didn't talk about Operation W@tback or the 1986 Amnesty. But these are part of HISTORY and it looks like people don't like to discuss that, it makes them get out of their comfort zone.
" Those that do not learn from their past are doomed to repeat it "
-Santayana
I read history. How many of YOU do?
I see reality. Do you?
( The ROCKY likes to change history. Operation W@tback is a reality. So is the fact that the KKK used to RUN the state of Colorado )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operatio...
http://ccpl.lib.co.us/History_Old/KKK...
November 11, 2008
3:18 p.m.
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Wally_Kalbacken writes:
"60 Minutes" has a habit of transforming most situations into a black-hat/white-hat story. They take the facts as they are and crush them into the dramatic template which requires that there be an identifiable bad-guy who can typically be chased out to his car by a camera crew, and at least one identifiable good-guy/victim whose story can be promoted. It’s amazing that this approach could continue for 40 years. Remember the Audi 5000 unintended acceleration story? It wouldn’t have been the dramatic, appealing (albeit false) story that 60 Minutes claimed if it had merely been about people stepping on the wrong pedal.
November 11, 2008
4:03 p.m.
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RealityDoesBite writes:
Actually, The Colorado EPA went out to Executive Recycling today and the site was deemed safe and doing business in a legal matter. The 60 minutes report was false. The items that were shipped were working monitors that were sold for use.
November 11, 2008
4:23 p.m.
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joggle writes:
RealityDoesBite: First, source? Second, did you see the above info of the person that bought the monitors 'for use'?
From Google: (actually, from http://www.coretec-inc.com/Manufactur...)
Karen Zhang
Electronics-Recycling Micronutrients Combined Metals Industries Inc.
(PCB and Metals Recycling)
#120-13065 84th Ave
Surrey, BC
Canada, V3V 3S1
www.electronics-recycling.com
Why would another recycling company buy these monitors 'for use'??
November 11, 2008
4:48 p.m.
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joggle writes:
And from this page: http://web.archive.org/web/2007112003...
I found they have a branch office in Denver just 13 miles away from Executive Recycling. I can't imagine that Executive Recycling didn't know who they were selling these monitors to. I also checked their FAQ page (which I had to find on the Way-Back machine since their website is currently down):
http://web.archive.org/web/2007112004...
They certainly only recycle CRTs, they don't resale functional ones.
November 11, 2008
5:57 p.m.
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Garip writes:
MT writes:
"Why does everyone here in the US care what happens to China when we have plenty of problems of our own that could use the attention."
IN THE WORDS OF AMY AND SETH: REALLY? ReallY?
OH, DEAR LORD, WHAT MORE CAN I SAY? wait... REALLY??????
November 11, 2008
9:20 p.m.
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testing86 writes:
In the Langara College story, the Services Manager for the college believes used motherboards are shipped to the United States, while Karen Zhang of Electronics Recycling says they are shipped to Vietnam. So it appears another one of Karen Zhang's customers doesn't know she's doing with her shipments.
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:...
November 12, 2008
9:32 a.m.
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joggle writes:
FredaBorden: After 8 years of our current idiot in chief you still have the gall to say 'Dummycrat', especially when Obama's IQ is at least 30 points higher than Bush's?
Also, Obama is not the president yet, he's the president-elect. Bush is still calling the shots and still wields the veto pen and the executive order pen. There's not much serious stuff to report on in regards to Obama until after 1/20/09.
November 12, 2008
11:18 a.m.
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Garip writes:
yo, FREDABORDEN: Now, just what makes you think this guy is a republican and what in bloody aych eeee double toothpick does that have to do with the price of trash in china? Yeesh, yer an ejit.
November 12, 2008
6:51 p.m.
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Rubicon writes:
I cannot claim this guy was doing something legal or illegal. I can claim there are huge numbers of "redirected" shipments of many products & especially reconditioned used products, all over the world. The criminal element has used this method to launder all sorts of cash & goods for decades. Why do you think the garbage industry has so many running it that are involved in criminal enterprises?
No one knows where that shipment went before it went to China. It could have stopped off almost anywhere, including locations in America. Restocking the packages is easy & even easier to restock with junk while viable product is taken away for sales elsewhere.
The guy may not be on the up & up. But, it will take much more investigation to convince me he is involved in something criminal or wrong. Jumping to wrong conclusions is something the media does well. Admitting their mistakes is something they almost never do!
November 12, 2008
9:43 p.m.
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testing86 writes:
Not simply convenient there was a shipment of CRT tubes for 60 Minutes to track from Executive Recycling to Hong Kong? Karen Zhang of Express Recycling could have been mislabeling the shipment to circumvent the export treaty. Another possibility is the Basil Action Network was involved in some kind of "sting" operation with Express Recycling as a go-between. Of course, misdeeds by Brandon Richter of Executive Recycling is the only angle 60 Minutes considered.