Harrell’s job was to feed discarded computer monitors and televisions to the Angel-Devil, a truck-sized shredding machine that chopped up cathode ray tubes and ground the glass from the screens into powder. He earned $10 per hour for his labor.
After his eight-hour shift, clad in the same skully hat and street clothes he typically wore throughout each day, he would greet his family, waiting in a car outside. His infant daughter Jeriyah was especially eager to be held and hugged, he recalled recently.
He didn’t know that those cuddles were poisoning his baby http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/c/35496/f/677088/s/4d480b44/sc/28/l/0L0Shuffingtonpost0N0C20A160C0A10C290Clead0Epoisoning0Erecycled0Eelectronics0In0I9131340A0Bhtml0Dutm0Ihp0Iref0Fscience0Gir0FScience/story01.htm You don’t need to go near an e-scrap facility to suffer the harmful effects.
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