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The phones that won't go away

Hazards of old mobile handsets under the spotlight at United Nations meet NUSA DUA: The disposal oi massive numbers of unwanted mobile phones will be a key focus of a five-day meeting on waste management which started on Monday here in Indonesia. The fate of the more than three billion of the gadgets in use today will be discussed by more than 1,000 delegates from 170 countries at the meeting on the Basel Convention in Bali.

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