Americans throw away hundreds of millions of tons of trash every year. We throw away spoiled food, old sneakers, unwanted pianos and bulky televisions. That's a lot of garbage. Do you ever feel guilty about what - or how much - you throw away? In "Unwanted Electronic Gear Rising in Toxic Piles," Ian Urbina writes about the dangerous pile-up of computer monitors, televisions and other electronic trash. Last year, two inspectors from California's hazardous waste agency were visiting an electronics recycling company near Fresno for a routine review of paperwork when they came across a warehouse the size of a football field, packed with tens of thousands of old computer monitors and televisions. The crumbling cardboard boxes, stacked in teetering rows, 9 feet high and 14 feet deep, were so sprawling that the inspectors needed cellphones to keep track of each other. The layer of broken glass on the floor and the lead-laden dust in the air was so thick that the inspectors soon left over safety concerns. Weeks later, the owner of the recycling company disappeared, abandoning the waste, and leaving behind a toxic hazard and a costly cleanup for the state and the warehouse's owner. As recently as a few years ago, broken monitors and televisions like those piled in the warehouse were being recycled profitably. The big, glassy funnels inside these machines - known as cathode ray tubes, or CRTs - were melted down and turned into new ones. But flat-screen technology has made those monitors and televisions obsolete, decimating the demand for the recycled tube glass used in them and creating what industry experts call a "glass tsunami" as stockpiles of the useless material accumulate across the country. The predicament has highlighted how small changes in the marketplace can suddenly transform a product into a liability and demonstrates the difficulties that federal and state environmental regulators face in keeping up with these rapid shifts. Do you ever feel guilty about what you throw away, or how much you throw away? What kinds of things do you throw away in a typical week? How much effort do you put into recycling or reusing things, instead of putting them in the garbage? What do you think should happen with all the hazardous electronic equipment that Americans have generated over the past few years?