FCC's DTV rulle will create an "e-waste nightmare"

Hey yall!
Its Rachel K. with my 2nd post. hehe. Im running a little behind schedule.
Anyways, I saw this video on the greenpeace site and the one world site.

It is about the toxic waste from old and discarded technology that is being delievered to Ghana from developed countries.
Apparentally the Basel convention created a law stating that discarded "e-waste" is not allowed to be dumped into developing countries; yet developed countries have managed to find a loophole in the law so that e-waste is still being sent. It is legal for developed countries to send "secondhand goods" to developing countries so this is what the developed countries are doing. But low and behold, the majority of the second hand goods arrive broken and unrepairable, thus equaling them as trash-and they have to be thrown away...in ghana.

The video also discusses how the e-waste is being used as a means to find precious metal by burning the trash (which lets out all the toxins of plastic and other things that make electronic equipment) in hopes to find precious metals within the electronics that can be sold. This is extremely detrimental to peoples health and even worse, Ghana doesnt have the medical resources to deal with the consequences of these toxins being released into the air and water.

This video came out in August of 2008. However, I thought it was interesting because of the FCC requirement that all television broadcasters switch to digital in February 2009. This means if you have an antenna, it will not work anymore-labeling a lot of usable, but old, televisions sets obselete. These television sets will most likely end up in developing countries as "second hand goods"