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CLEAN COMPUTER CAMPAIGN
Corporate Strategies for Electronic Recycling
A new report by the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition and the Computer TakeBack Campaign documents the vast differences between the two largest U.S. computer makers -- Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell Computer (Dell) -- in their computer recycling strategies.
Posted: June 25, 2003 (~700 KB)
High-Tech Goes Green
Work related cancers have eroded the high-tech industry's clean reputation. New European laws on take back and hreduction of hazardous substances in computers could set a new standard. Read the article by Ted Smith and Chad Raphael that appeared in the Spring 2003 issue of Yes! A Journal of Positive Alternatives. Read the on-line version!
European Union publishes e-waste directives
Under the electrical and electronic waste (WEEE) law, by 2005 authorities must introduce legislation for free take back of waste goods by final owners and ensure that equipment producers are responsible for financing the collection, treatment, recovery and disposal of all waste. Under the hazardous substances in manufactured equipment (RoHS) law, manufacturers will have to cease using lead, mercury, cadmium and hexavalent chromium, or the brominated flame retardants PBDE and PBB, in products marketed from July 1, 2006. Read the directives and an article published in Brussels.
SVTC Press release
(February 18, 2003)
NEW!
4th Annual Clean Computer Report Card
SVTC, in partnership with more than
20 other groups in the national Computer TakeBack Campaign, released
the 4th Annual Computer Report Card on January 9, 2003.
Read
the media advisory.
Strategy:
Can designers save the world?
This article by Jenn Shreve
examines the possibility of e-waste being a thing of the past, if
designers get their way. Printed in eDesign, September/October 2002.
(This is a PDF File.)
Enabling
the Future
A new report by Natural Step and SVTC. The
section written by SVTC is a comprehensive assessment of the
environmental and health footprint that has been caused by the
development of the high-tech industry in Silicon Valley over the
years.
Electronics
Recyclers Pledge of True Stewardship
Exporting
Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia
 Electronic waste (e-waste) is the most
rapidly growing waste problem in the world. It is a crisis of
quantity and toxicity posing occupational and environmental health
threats. This report and photos reveal the 'escape valve' to handle
this problem--exporting the E-waste crisis to Asia.
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