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To: Brumar89 who wrote (17195)	2/8/2010 1:28:07 PM
From: Eric	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

BTW, there were semiconducter plants that contaminated the entire ground water supplies of Santa Clara county. The early legacy of some of this stuff from the 50's and 60's was bad. How about DDT? I just got off the phone from a friend of mine who worked in semiconductor manufacturing at TriQuint Semiconductor. He was one of the founders of the company and ran a "fab" production line of Gallium Arsenide semiconductors which were the "state of the art" in high speed semiconductors in the late 1980's and still are today. They recycled all of the waste materials and they were sent back to the original manufacturers for processing. Many of the processes are closed looped now. A lot of the fabs run today without a human being even being around except to watch on a TV monitor. I do hope the Chinese clean up their act. It's their responsibility for their own citizens.