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|  Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle)
The Environmental Protection Agency said it’s caught two companies — one from Texas and one in Lakewood, Wash. — trying to illegally send computer waste to Hong Kong.
The Seattle EPA office said W and E International Trading Co., of Texas, and SM Metals, of Lakewood, tried to ship more than 500 used color computer monitors to Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Environmental Protection Department notified U.S. authorities and the monitors were shipped back to the Port of Tacoma in May.
U.S. EPA officials said that one computer monitor contains about four pounds of toxic lead and may contain mercury, cadmium and arsenic.
“The companies’ violations include improperly packing, labeling and marking dangerous waste and failing to notify EPA of the intent to export it,” EPA officials said in a statement.
The companies have been ordered to submit an inventory of the items and explain how they’re going to dispose of the monitors. The order will become final unless they ask for a hearing on the matter within 30 days.
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