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Aida Williams's List: Dangers of eWaste
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Sep 17, 10
"Our toys and devices are amazing -- until they're obsolete. That's bad news for the planet, but good news for Electronic Recyclers International, a $50-million-in-revenue company that expects sales to double by 2012. Fresno-based ERI partners with the likes of Samsung and Best Buy (BBY) and is the largest electronics recycler in the U.S."
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Sep 14, 10
"Recycling firms dealing in electronic goods that have been operating informally are eyeing a new income stream as the Government moves to regulate the handling of e-waste.
This comes as Kenya's enters a new regulatory regime, with guidelines that are meant to steer the formation of a new policy to manage electronic waste." -
Sep 14, 10
"IF YOU are tossing your mobile phones and laptops into the trash, know this: They could end up harming your health and the environment.
Said Associate Professor Ting Yen Peng of the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering: "These electronic devices contain a variety of hazardous substances such as lead and mercury." -
Sep 14, 10
"WATERLOO, Iowa --- The digital revolution is keeping workers busy at Goodwill Industries of Northeast Iowa.
Hundreds of personal computers were being sorted Thursday at the agency's Falls Avenue warehouse, while other employees shrink-wrapped pallets of monitors and filled enormous cardboard boxes with keyboards, mice and related electronics." -
Sep 14, 10
"Almost everyone recognizes the environmental impacts of car exhaust, oil spills, chemical waste, industrial smokestacks and other traditional polluters.
What's less known, however, is the threat posed by discarded televisions, computers, batteries, printer cartridges and other "e-waste" dumped in the nation's landfills." -
Sep 14, 10
"The Facebook group, Ghanaians against Dumping of E-waste now has 500 members to date.
The group was formed about two years ago by Ghanaian journalist and e-waste campaigner, Emmanuel K. Dogbevi to draw attention to the growing menace of e-waste dumping into Ghana by the West." -
Aug 13, 10
"For all of the good in recycling and reusing old electronics, we must examine some of the potential hazards.
All e-waste materials have toxins embedded within, and the processes used to extract the valued commodities — gold, silver, platinum, copper, palladium, plastics, glass, etc. — are risky, potentially exposing workers to highly toxic materials." -
Aug 13, 10
"An Environmental Protection Agency program that encourages federal agencies to recycle old computers and other electronics has achieved limited success throughout government and the nation, federal auditors said."
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Aug 27, 10
"For some parts of the world, technology has come to deliver longer lives, better health and greater conveniences. However, that progress has also come at a cost to other parts of the world. We live in an era of cheap, disposable electronic consumer goods, and it's taken its toll on places where products are made before they're delivered to you, and where they go after they're tossed aside for the next big thing."
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Aug 24, 10
"The digital media revolution promises to improve the quality of our lives though an expanded capacity to communicate, collaborate, learn and make informed decisions. Yet our seemingly insatiable demand for digital media is driving a proliferation of consumer electronic devices and IT infrastructure, which are significantly contributing to a tsunami of toxic electronic waste. "
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