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E-WASTE
E-waste, discarded electronics, from computers to cell phones to TVs, are now the fastest-growing waste stream in the U.S. It is also big business: Hundreds of companies buy and sell the discarded components and materials, generating a $6 billion market in the U.S. But e-waste, which contains such toxics as lead and mercury, is often dumped illegally in the U.S. or shipped to developing countries by shady dealers.
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After collecting roughly 96 million pounds of electronic waste at locations in the United States, Dell and Goodwill...
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Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play.Members of the EU Parliament are expected to debate...
for answers to frequently asked questions. Anyway, my question is, where can I take old monitors and other e-waste for...
NEW VISTAS: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit inaugurating the new e-waste disposal scheme in New Delhi on Monday.
2.25 million tons of electronic waste--only 18% of which is recycled, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
and found that if they could talk, they might tell tales of , sweatshop labor, environmentally damaging mining, and...
the CBS program '60 Minutes' followed a suspicious crate leaving a Denver-area company that claimed to recycle its...
to the manufacturer for reuse, disposal or surplus sale purposes, the statement added. It caters companies in consumer...
the CBS program "60 Minutes" followed a suspicious crate leaving a Denver-area company that claimed to...
suggest that 3% of its GDP is lost to supply-chain inefficiencies and low compliance with the government’s e-waste...
Green Business Ron LeMay, once Chief Executive for Sprint's wireless business and David Edmonson, former CEO of...
A new article by researchers at Arizona State University says an e-waste trade ban currently under consideration in...
features. In a press release describing the study, Swann writes: The principal solution to the problem of PC e-waste is...
floor or toward a far corner of the room, he told stories about digging around garbage dumps for discarded electronics...
CHICAGO, Ill., March 8 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Annual training is mandatory for employees who generate, manage, or...
the Basel Action Networks e-Stewards program. The program includes recycling concerns that have pledged not to dump...
Clean Up Australia Day founder Ian Kiernan has stepped up calls for national laws to crack down on e-waste producers,...
our attention. Even more stunning is the way these figures are climbing: The report predicts that by 2020, e-waste from...
— but when it comes to gadgets, being environmentally responsible isn't quite so easy. That's because electronics are...
18 times from the 2007 level, says a United Nations Environment Programme study. Health problems If no proper e-waste...
The gold medals at the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver contains 1.52 percent gold recovered from e-waste.
UNITED NATIONS/BALI: Waste from discarded electronics will rise dramatically in the developing world within a decade,...
India's e-waste could jump by 500% by 2020 Developing countries need to prepare for an avalanche of e-waste generated...
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