The e-waste nightmare lurking in your kid's toy box

When toys and electronics are recycled they are physically destroyed, shredded, and segregated into piles of different metals, plastics, and glass. “It's modern mining, to an extent, where they're trying to mine the most valuable aspects of the product, and then pass the rest of the product on to the next guy to sell,” says Brett Stevens, Global VP of Material Sales & Procurement at TerraCycle.