Electronics

  • ISO Creates Recycling Standard for Plastics

    July 7th, 2008


    The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has announced a new standard, ISO 15270, which will affect how plastic waste is recovered and recycled.

    The plastic industry can use the standard to further develop a market for recovered plastics. While there are seven different types of plastic resin that can be recycled, the current market dictates that #1 (PETE) and continue …


  • Dell Recycling Program Provides Jobs

    July 7th, 2008


    Dell is teaming up with the Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired-Goodwill of Greater Rochester, New York, to start a free computer recycling program that will create jobs for ABVI workers and keep unwanted electronic devices out of local landfills, reports the Democrat and Chronicle.

    Goodwill stores in the area now accept everything from whole desktop computers to continue …


  • Developing Countries Urged to Stop Accepting Toxic Waste

    July 1st, 2008


    The United Nations is reporting that one of the major reasons poorer countries are importing toxic waste, such as old computers and pesticides, is for a short term monetary gain to lift themselves out of poverty.

    Countries are sacrificing the dangers to human health and the environment to turn a profit accepting others’ waste, even though the Basel Convention continue …


  • Electronic Recycler Wins Entrepreneur of the Year

    June 25th, 2008


    John Shegarian, Chairman and CEO of Fresno-based Electronic Recyclers International (ERI), was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2008 Award for the category of Clean Technology in Northern California this week.

    ERI is the largest recycler of electronic waste in the world, capable of processing over 100 million pounds of obsolete electronics each year. This is continue …


  • Massachusetts Man Hikes for E-Waste Recycling

    June 24th, 2008


    Starting July 9, a Marblehead resident will hike 775 miles from Burlington, Vermont to Washington, D.C. with a backpack full of used electronics to promote the issue of recycling e-waste.

    The TOXTOUR, started by Christopher Swain, will last at least 75 days. Swain will fill a 60-pound backpack with electronics, and collect other electronics along the way. He will continue …


  • Waste Levy on Imported TVs Proposed by New Zealand

    June 23rd, 2008


    The Consumer Electronics Association and the Environment Ministry of New Zealand are working on a product stewardship plan for the 250,000 TV sets imported each year into the country. The new plan, which would become law, would have one of two options.

    The first would be to have Customs collect a flat-rate levy of 30 dollars on each of the continue …


  • Taking Out the Musical Trash

    June 23rd, 2008


    Some CDs will go with you to the grave, while others pass quickly through your life like flare pants or slap bracelets. When you grow out of a CD or DVD, the last place it should go is the trash.

    Valuable resources are used to manufacture these disks. The polycarbonate plastic is made of crude oil and natural gases. The continue …


  • Recycle Cell Phones for World Refugee Day

    June 16th, 2008


    Donating your cell phone from now through October can save more than just landfill space.

    A new partnership between Tents of Hope and ECO-CELL will donate money for each phone recycled to help refugees in Darfur, Sudan. The partnership will launch on Saturday, which is World Refugee Day.

    In addition to drop-off locations in many U.S. states, you can mail continue …


  • Green Plug: Product Stewardship for Power Supplies

    June 16th, 2008


    A San Ramon, CA company, Green Plug, is developing a universal intelligent power supply that will communicate with devices, supply them only with the power they need, and eliminate the waste created by “phantom power.” This type of energy use (phantom power) is unnecessary power that is used when a device is left plugged in after being fully charged continue …


  • Dell Releases 2007 Product Recycling Report

    June 9th, 2008


    Dell today marked the one-year anniversary of its commitment to be the “greenest technology company on the planet” by reporting the company’s largest single-year product recycling volume, becoming the first major computer manufacturer to offer Silver 80 PLUS-certified power supplies and demonstrating significant progress in its global zero-carbon initiative.

    “Our customers and stakeholders are inspiring us to lead a new continue …