Laura Barnes's List: Electronics recycling

Recycling More Obscure Materials
Part of the Internet Consumer Recycling Guide. Includes instructions for recycling cell phones, computer disks and videotapes, computers, eyeglasses, polystyrene packaging, CDs, smoke detectors, and other difficult to recycle items.

Basel Action Network Library
Links to a wealth of information about e-waste, particularly its effect on Asia and Africa. Includes The Digital Dump: Exporting Re-use and Abuse to Africa (2005) and Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia (2002).

Electronic Waste Topic Hub
Developed by the Western Regional Pollution Prevention Network

Product Stewardship Sector Resources
Includes information on electronics recycling

Texas Campaign for the Environment: Electronic Waste
Links to many reports about the environmental health effects of e-waste.

"Covered electronic device or CED" means a computer, portable computer, electronic printer, computer peripheral, video display device, video display device peripheral, facsimile machine, cellular telephone, portable calculator, PDA, and electronic encoding/decoding audio data storage and retrieval device."
Electronic Scrap Recycling Act (SB 1583)

Electronics Waste Topic Hub--Policies.  Developed by WRPPN.
http://www.glrppr.org/hubs/subsection.cfm?hub=936&subsec=15&nav=15&CFID=56220&CFTOKEN=97880446 

R.W. Beck, Inc. Illinois Recycling Economic Information Study : Final Report. [Springfield, Ill.] : Illinois Dept. of Commerce and Community Affairs, 2001. Not available online.

A Report on Electronics Equipment Disposal and Recycling
http://www.commerce.state.il.us/NR/rdonlyres/2F3529DD-8126-41AF-9AB5-9620D83AE191/0/ElectronicsCommissionReport052406.pdf
Report by the Illinois Computer Equipment Disposal and Recycling Commission. Contains the committee's recommendations, which probably went into the proposed legislation.

Information about The Commission and comments from industry on the draft report
http://www.commerce.state.il.us/dceo/Bureaus/Energy_Recycling/Events/Comp+recycling+comm.htm

Electronic Waste: Strengthening the Role of the Federal Government in Encouraging Recycling and Reuse (November 2005 GAO report)
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0647.pdf

Electronic Waste: Observation on the Role of the Federal Government in Encouraging Recycling and Reuse (July 2005 testimony by GAO)
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05937t.pdf

Electronic Waste Topic Hub--Legislation
http://www.glrppr.org/hubs/subsection.cfm?hub=936&subsec=14&nav=14&CFID=56220&CFTOKEN=97880446 

U.S. Census Bureau Economic Statistics 
Includes retail sales data, may not be aggregated by state.