This month, my colleagues have been giving you a glimpse of what the end of the life cycle often looks like for electronic equipment like cell phones, mp3 players, and old hard drives and monitors. It can make for grim reading. There are e-waste recyclers who don’t actually recycle, and there’s the fact that much of this stuff ends up in the developing world, where people often risk their health (and their lives) in pursuit of a few pennies’ worth of material to sell.