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| Sending Old PCs Up the River |
| By CNET News.com |
| Published: 02/25/2002 |
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Inmates at a new federal prison in California will soon be able to join the high-tech economy via the burgeoning field of electronics recycling. The U.S. Penitentiary in Atwater, Calif., which is set to open soon, will employ approximately 350 prisoners in the handling of PCs, monitors and related devices that have reached the end of their useful lives in government agencies and private enterprise, according to Larry Novicky, general manager of recycled electronics products and services group Unicor. Unicor is the trade name of Federal Prison Industries, an arm of the U.S. Department of Justice. When the aging electronic goods get to the Atwater facility, the inmates will test them and then put them onto one of two tracks. The devices will either be cleaned up for resale or donation, or they will be 'mined' for materials including glass, plastics and copper wiring. Unicor provides the recycling services to federal, state and local governments, private-sector businesses and not-for-profit agencies. It relies on recyclers and reprocessors to collect and transport the electronic goods and parts. A member of California's Integrated Waste Management Board said the Atwater facility would have to meet state requirements for disposing of hazardous waste. Critics have blasted prison labor as unfair both to the inmates and to the private sector because of wages that are well below those paid outside prison walls. They also raise the question of occupational safety, given the inmates' proximity to potentially toxic materials. 'Atwater is just the latest and probably the worst' example of inmates being exploited in the name of providing them with job skills, said Ted Smith, executive director of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC), an advocacy group. 'It's pretty clear that it's a way to use a low wage, but really it's an involuntary servitude type of approach to dealing with e-waste, and I think that's pretty scandalous.' Unicor has been in the electronics recycling business since 1996. The Atwater facility, located at the former Castle Air Force Base in central California, joins similar operations at prisons in Florida, New Jersey, Ohio and Texas. |
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