San Francisco, CA - Wednesday, July 16

The Computer TakeaBack Campaign's Hard Drive Across the West stops in San Francisco to pick up obsolete Dell electronic wastes. San Francisco Supervisor Sophie Maxwell, Ted Smith and Sheila Davis of the Silicon Valley Toxic Coaliton, Michael Stanley-Jones of Clean Water Action and Rico Mastrodonato, California League of Conservation Voters particpate in news conference at San Francisco City Hall.

Portland, Oregon - Friday, July 11

Computer TakeBack! Campaign stops in Portland to pick up Dell E-waste. This was the second stop in the multi-city tour. Speakers from Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, Oregon Center for Environmental Health and the Western States Prison Project called on Dell to assume responsibility for its products when they become hazardous electronics waste and to follow through on their promise to stop using a controversial taxpayer-subsidized prison labor computer recycling program. (Photo Credit: Ted Whitney, Computer TakeBack! Campaign)

Seattle, Washington - Thursday, July 10

Joseph DeBartolo, left, and Geordie Smith, right, load a truck with unwanted Dell computers for on the launching of the Hard Drive Across the West. Computers in several Western cities will be colleted before being delivered to the Dell Computer annual shareholder meeting in Austin, Texas later this month. Activists with the Computer Take Back Campaign say the computer giant should do more in the area of recycling unwanted electronics and the safe removal of hazardous materials from unwanted computers. The Basel Action Network and Washington Citizens for Resource Conservation played key roles in launching the national drive. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)