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SVTC HOME > MEDIA CENTER > PRESS COVERAGE YEAR 2000
SVTC Media Coverage Year 2000
Welcome to the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition Press Room.
SVTC Media Coverage Year 2000
(This is a partial listing of some for the media coverage we received in the year 2000.
(Links will be provided for some of these articles shortly)
"Multinational Firms Take Aim", In These Times, December 25, 2000
"Environmental Capitalism", KQED-FM, San Francisco, December 22, 2000
"High-tech companies receive mixed grades", Socialfunds.com, December 21, 2000
"US Firms Get Poor Eco Ratings" by Henry Norr, San Francisco Chronicle, December 20, 2000
"High-tech firms focus of report by toxics coalition" by Colleen Valles, San Jose Mercury News, December 20, 2000
"High-Tech Companies Graded on Environmental Performance", by Colleen Valles, AP, December 20, 2000
Local TV news coverage of High-tech environmental performance/records, December 19-20, 2000
"Recycling that old personal computer", Christian Science Monitor, December 18, 2000
"Not Just a Pretty Face", by Robyn Israel, Palo Alto Weekly, December 15, 2000
Re-using RAM and Salvaging Silicon, Jayson Matthews, Silicon Valley News, December 12, 2000
Before you buy a PC at Christmas... recycle the old one, Press release by Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition and PaxWorld Funds, December 12, 2000
Coverage of Pax SVTC story, Wired Magazine
"Rebel with a cause", by Robyn Israel, Palo Alto Weekly, December 15, 2000
"Give your PCs a New Lease on Life", Doreen Bentley, BuyerZone.com, December 6, 2000
"Disposing of school computers", by Elizabeth B. Guerard, eSchool News, December 2000Erin Brockovich wows Atherton Audience, Jane Knoerle, the Almanac, December 6, 2000
"Out with the Old PC, responsibly", Boston Globe, December 14, 2000
"Chemicals and Workers", by David Lazarus, San Francisco Chronicle, December 3, 2000
The Clean Fight"--Erin Brockovich Praises SVTC, by Kevin Fayle, Cupertino Courier, November 29, 2000. This article also appeared in San Jose City Times.
"Ready for recycling?", by Russ Arensman, Electronic Business, November 27, 2000
Information Technology: an environmental nightmare?", The Hindu, November 23, 2000
"Industry Wrestles with Electronics Recycling", by Steve Toloken and Jinida Doba, Plastic News, November 22, 2000
Recycling your PC? IBM will take it>MSNBC, November 15, 2000
Brockovich and the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition want PG&E to ‘come clean’ on pollution, AP, November 17, 2000
"Teens seek out toxins", by Frank Sweeney, San Jose Mercury News, November 17, 2000
Erin Brockovich at SVTC benefit, TV news--Bay TV, KPIX, November 16-17, 2000
High School Students Monitor for PCBs, TV News---KPIX, November 16, 2000
"Getting the Lead Out", by Barbara Jorgensen, Electronic Business, November 2000
Toxic Technology, TV news--NBC, October 30, 2000
Toxic Technology, TV news-- ABC, October 27, 2000
Fire at MBA Polymers, TV news-CBS, October 26, 2000
Enviro concerns over SUV TV News--ABC, October 21, 2000
Environmental Consequences of E-waste, TV news--Fox-TV, October 21, 2000
"Digital Paradise", by Jonathon Franklin
LA Trade, October 2000
Minnesota Offers Unique Recycling Plan, by Brian Hansen, Environmental News Service, October 18, 2000
Digital Paradise, Jonathon Franklin, LatinTrade.com, October 2000
"Chemicals in Computers Trigger Illness", by Cat Lazaroff, Environmental News Service, September 20, 2000
Where do the old computers go? Technology Matters, Fall 2000
Poison PCs, by Jim Fischer, Salon.com, September 18, 2000
"Technology's Toxic Waste", by Paul Lashmar, News Observer/NY Times, September 18, 2000
"Industry Goes on Global Offensive Against Environmentalists", by John Stanton, Inside EPA, September 15, 2000
It's cheaper to dump than recycle, Pratap Ravindran , Hindu Business Line, Sept. 11, 2000
Trashing your PC by Todd Campbell, Fall 2000
"High-tech trashes causes waste worry", by Louise Knott Ahern, Detroit News, September 13, 2000
This ain't no poker,, Mary Beth Deline, Wired Women, June 2000
US Pressure Group Pushes US Government To Adopt European Union Computer Recycling Plans, by Marc Osborne, Semiconductor Fabtech, 2000
Wanted Silicon Valley Toxic Avengers, by Ted Smith, Fall 2000
"Toxic Technology", CNET.COM, August 28, 2000
"Landfilling a Mile-High Pile of E-waste", by Leslie Byster, Common Dreams News Wire, July 27, 2000
"EU Wants Electronic and Electrical Products Recycled", by Bette Hileman, Chemical & Engineering News, July 10, 2000
Power Hungry in Silicon Valley, by A. Clay Thompson, sfbg.com
Computer Recycling a Triple win, Karen Witham Lynch, Web Business magazine, July 2000
Pressing the Delete Button, By Megan Lindow, Mountain View Voice, June 9, 2000
"Europe Limits Heavy Metals in Electronic and Electrical Equipment", Environmental News Service, June 14, 2000
"Environmental Groups Urge Tougher Recycling Rules:, Kevin Baxter, American Metal Market, May 25, 2000
"Pressing the Delete Button", Megan Lindow, Palo Alto Weekly, May 17, 2000
"Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition Urges Gore to Change US Trade Stance on E-waste", Business Wire, May 17, 2000
"Silicon Soybeans: Groundwater contamination created by Monsanto", Metro News, San Jose, May 11-17, 2000
Old Computers Bring New Problems to World of Technology, Bill Bergstrom, AP, Printed in Popular Science, May 12, 2000
Junked Computers=Toxic Nightmare, by Bill Bergstrom, AP/Philadelphia, May 7, 2000
BALANCING TECHNOLOGY'S IMPACT.(how technology companies affect the environment) Molly O'Meara, USA Today, May 1, 2000
E-waste crisis forecast, Connie Skipitares, San Jose Mercury News, April 28, 2000
"Santa Clara Leads the Way in Tech Recycling". The Santa Clara, April 27, 2000
"High-Tech's Toxic Toll" by Christopher Cook and A. Clay Thompson, San Francisco Bay Guardian, April 26-May 2, 2000
"Castoff computers generate new breed of recyclers in US", American Metal Market, April 24, 2000
Crunch Time, by Clint Sweet, Sacramento Bee, April 23, 2000
"Diverting Old Parts from PC Boot Hill", by Kelly Heyboer, New Jersey Star-Ledger, April 22, 2000
"Paperless Office Remains Elusive this Earth Day", Andrea Orr, San Jose Mercury News, April 22, 2000
Increase Awareness of Computer Recycling, T.J.DeGroat, ResponsiblityInc.com, April 21, 2000
"The Big Stick Approach", by Joel Bleifuss, In These Times, April 17, 2000
Electronics Makers Pressed to Take Back Discards, Environmental News Service, April 16, 2000
PAX Takes Lead to make Computer Recycling an issue, April 20, 2000
"Computer Meltdown", by Lisa Rapaport,
San Jose Mercury News, April 18, 2000
"What to do with old Computers", by Jonathon Briggs, LA Times, April 14, 2000
"Recycling Gives Old Computers New Lives", by Jonathon Briggs and David Haldane, LA Times, April 14, 2000
Millions of Obsolete Computers Enter Waste Stream, by Kim Nash, PC Computer World, April 14, 2000
Obsolete TVs, PCs, spur trash talk, Richard Hepp, Chicago Tribune, April 9, 2000Costly Computer Casualties, by Dan Neel, InfoWorld.com, April 7, 2000
"Crunch Time: Recycling Old Computers Makes Small Dent in Huge Problem" by Clint Swett, Sacramento Bee, April 2, 2000
"Tossing TVs, PCs Gets Banned", by Martin Finucane, San Jose Mercury News, April 1, 2000
"Mass. Bans Computer Dumping" by Martin Finucane (AP), Web, March 31, 2000
SVTC Awarded David Gaines Award, CA Planning and Conservation League, April 2000
"Old Computers Create New Problems", by Michael Archer, Orlando Sentinel, March 20, 2000
"Toxic metals danger in your computer", Paul Lashmar, The Independent, March 18, 2000
"Reboot. Don't Pollute", by Susan Moran, Business 2.0, March 2000
"Toxic components make old computers dangerous", by Richard Hepp, Chicago Tribune, February 29, 2000
"Please Dispose of Properly", Scientific American, February 2000
"The Electronic Junk Pile" by Richard Hepp, Chicago Tribune, February 28, 2000
"EU to set out electronic plans", Reuters, February 16, 2000
"New Homes for old computers", by Marilynn Larkin, Lancet, February 12, 2000
Telecom Valley, Shephard Bliss, Pacific Sun, Feb 2-8, 2000
"Outdated computers, not trash", Edmonton Journal, February 4, 2000
Some PC's Byte the Dust, INFORMation, January 2000
Don't toss that old computer, by Joyce Slaton, January 5, 2000
>"An interview with Ted Smith", by Tekla Perry, IEEE Spectrum, Jan-Feb 2000
State of the WorldWorldWatch Institute, 2000
If you require further assistance contact Leslie Byster, SVTC Communications Director at 408-287-6707 or by email.
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