Monday, November 28, 2011 No Comments
This Guardian UK newspaper article, “Electronic waste refining could be big business for the U.S,” in making the case for U.S. domestic e-waste refining, provides some great nuggets of information. For example, the journalist Leon Kaye captures the tortured machinations electronics manufactures employ to tap cheap labor: “Aside from the human cost, companies and consumers [...]
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011 No Comments
Sadly, a large proportion of electronics recyclers are really just exporters. When you haul your old TV down to your municipal recycling event, thinking you are doing the right, environmentally responsible thing, you might actually be handing it over to a company which will simply load it up onto a container and ship it to [...]
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011 1 Comment
Happy America Recycles Day! On November 15 each year, communities across the county join to celebrate and promote recycling. However, before you get out there and do your part, and in particular with regard to recycling your old toxic electronics, make sure you are not simply handing your equipment off to those that call themselves [...]
Tags: America Recyles Day, ERI, responsible recycling
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011 No Comments
Filmmaker, author, and e-Stewards/BAN champion Annie Leonard explains how polluter subsidies are crippling the US economy in her new, short, and very engaging animated film The Story of Broke. Writes Annie in her blog accompanying the film, “It’s high time we gave a leg up to the kinds of cleaner, healthier industries we need for [...]
Tags: Annie Leonard, The Story of Broke, The Story of Stuff Project
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Friday, November 4, 2011 No Comments
Parties to the 178 nation member United Nations Basel Convention convened in Cartagena, Colombia in October for what is said to be one of the most important and successful Conferences of the Parties (COP) since the convention’s 1989 inception. Making headlines was the fact that the Parties determined the way forward for the Basel Ban [...]
Tags: Basel Convention, Hong Kong Convention, shipbreaking
Category: News, Shipbreaking
Friday, November 4, 2011 No Comments
Many members of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), unaware that their membership dollars have been going toward an expensive lobbying effort that will hurt their businesses, got a huge wake up call at the recent e-Scrap 2011 Conference. The newly formed all business Coalition for American Electronics Recycling (CAER) told recyclers at the [...]
