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SVTC HOME > PRESS ROOM > PRESS COVERAGE YEAR 2002
SVTC Media Coverage Year 2002
Welcome to the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition Press Room. SVTC Media Coverage Year 2002
(This is a partial listing for the media coverage we received in the year 2002.)
(Links will be provided for some of these articles shortly)
Electronic Waste News/Clean Computer Campaign
Electronics and Health
Sustainable Water
High Tech Goes Global/ICRT
Other articles featuring SVTC
Electronic Waste News/Clean Computer Campaign
(This includes articles from release of Exporting Harm)
The Challenges of Producer Responsibility in Electronics, GreenBiz.com, November 2002
A Toxic Brew to Bubble Over, by Joan Villa, The Buzz, October 23, 2003
Strategy: Can designers save the world?, by Jenn Shreve. Printed in eDesign, pages 35-36, September/October 2002. (This is a PDF File.)
Coverage of E-waste Export Story in Germany, August 28, 2002
Electronics Final Cost, NPR Program, July 19, 2002
Waste Not, Want Not, Bill Roberts, Electronic Business Online, July 1, 2002
EPA: Old Computers No Longer Junk by Kendra Mayfield, Wired Magazine, June 3, 2002
Mainland fights back over role as dumping ground for rich, South China Morning Post, May 31, 2002
Agreement on Computer Recycling by Jennifer Lee, New York Times, April 22, 2002
E-Junk Explosion, by Richard Schmidt, Environmental Health Perspectives, April 2002
Why tech's pollution is going global, by Jon Skillings, CNET, April 25, 2002
The E-Waste Dilemma, by Ann Hwang, Faultline, April 17, 2002
High-Tech US Trash Floods Asia, by Cat Lazaroff, Albion Monitor, April 13, 2002
Activists push for safer recycling, NPR program, April 6, 2002
Who Pays for E-Waste?, by Richard Dahl, Spheres of Influence, Environmental Health Perspectives, April 2002
Corporate Capture of the Internet, by Russell Mokhiber, Multinational Monitor, March 2002
Toxic Indifference, Healing Our World, a weekly comment by Jackie Alan Giuliano, Ph.D., March 15, 2002
World News No 5 2002, coverage of Exporting Harm Report, from international union in France, PSI Publications
China's Poor Pick Profits From Toxic Tech Trash, Reuters, March 14, 2002
Garbage In, Garbage Out, by Neil Gough, Time Magazine, March 11, 2002
E-waste is ours to deal with, not Asia's,Opinion piece by Chad Raphael, San Jose Mercury News, March 8, 2002
New Report Finds Much of “Recycled” Technology in U.S. Is Dumped in Asia, Business for Social Responsibility, March 6, 2002
Rich Countries Trash Asia with High-Tech Waste, by David Legard, IDG News Service, Singapore Bureau, March 6, 2002
Technology Today, by Lisa Gill, Herald Times, Bloomington, IN, March 6, 2002
Green Law Fuels Dumping", by Anthony Clark and Darren Rea, Electronic Engineering Times UK, March 4, 2002
"American's Discarded Computers Poison water ways in Asia," Julie Sevrens Lyons, Knight-Ridder Newspapers (San Jose), appeared in Grand Forks Herald and San Jose Mercury News, March 4, 2002
"Report blasts U.S. recyclers", by Joe Truini, Waste News, March 4, 2002
Interview on Working Assets RadioMarch 4, 10:00 AM
"High Tech Toxic Trash From US Found to be Flooding Asia", Asia Report, Northern Territory Regional (Cebu City, Philippines), March 4, 2002
"Report: Old PCs endanger Third World nations; "Nightmare": Some want a recycling fee added to the cost of a new computer," Brian Bergstein, San Jose, article in the Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, IA), March 3, 2002
KQED Forum, host Michael Krasny, March 1, 2002 www.kqed.org
Chinese Villages poisoned by high-tech , by Martin Fackler, San Francisco Chronicle, February 28, 2002
Technology News, Business and Finance, February 28, 2002
Recycling Of US High-Tech Trash Poisons Chinese Villages , Dow Jones Wire Services, February 28, 2002
"IT Firms Must Answer the Call", by Katrina Nicholas, Australian Financial Review, February 28, 2002
"Computer Cast-Offs Poisoning the Third World", Charles Arthur, Technology Editor, The Independent (London), February 27, 2002
The Dirty Truth About Tech, Media that Matters, February 27, 2002
"Hi-Tech Trashing of Asia", Daily Post (Liverpool), February 27, 2002
Future Tense, on Minnesota Public Radio, February 26, 2002
Electronic Waste in Asia, Geek.com, February 26, 2002
California's Obsolete Computers Pollute Asia, contributed by Linda LaSut, Planetizen, February 26, 2002 (from San Jose Mercury News)
TV coverage on KING TV-Seattle, KNBW-Portland, OR, and many other stations
Cleaning Up Computer Trash, ABC News, Tech TV, Feb. 26, 2002
"High-Tech Trash Floods Asia," Cat Lazaroff, Environment News Service, February 26, 2002
"Recycled Electronics Pose a Health Hazard in Asia",, P.J. Huffstutter, LA-Times,Tech TV, February 26, 2002
Technology's Toxic Trash is Sent to Poor Nations," by John Markoff, New York Times, February 25, 2002,
Computer dumping 'polluting Asia', BBC News, February 25, 2002
Report says U.S. is exporting e-waste, CNN.Com-Sci-Tech, February 25, 2002
"Report Urges U.S. to Enact E-Waste Recycling Programs" by Danielle Jackson, Waste Age, February 25, 2002
"Talking High-Tech Trash," by Jonathon Skillings, February 25, 2002, MSN.com
Groups Document Chinese Computer DumpNewsday - AP story by Brian Bergstein, February 25, 2002
Cleaning Up Computer Trash, Environmentalists pressure government to find safer way to dispose of electronic waste, Tech TV, February 25, 2002
Much toxic computer waste lands in Third World, , Brian Bergstein, USA Today, February 25, 2002 (AP-wire)
Austin American Statesman- Ran the NY Times wire, February 25, 2002
"Unintended Results from US Hardware Dumps in Asia Slashdot, February 25, 2002
Report raps dumping of high-tech trash", By Jonathan Skillings Staff Writer, CNET News.com, February 25, 2002, 12:35 PM PT
Where do old computers go to die?" Dallas Morning News, AP Story, February 25, 2002
Report raps dumping of high-tech trash"ZD Net, Australia, February 25, 2002 (story above picked up in Australia)
Discarded U.S. computers fill dumps in Third World, AP story, Copley News, February 25, 2002
"High-Tech Toxic Trash From USA Found To Be Flooding Asia", Clickit.com February 25, 2002
"Toxic high-tech waste flows to Asia" By Kyung M. Song, business reporter, Seattle Times, February 25, 2002
California's old computers pollute Asia, report says Julie Severns Lyons,San Jose Mercury News, February 25, 2002
Companies , Consumers would pay cost of recycling, Noam Levey, Mercury News Sacramento Bureau, February 22, 2002
"Environmentalists Document Horrific Computer DumpSouth China Morning Post (Hong Kong) - AP wire, February 25, 2002
E-waste' is cited as a threat to poor states "International Herald Tribune (re-issue of NYT story), February 25, 2002
U.S. Waste is Third World Hazard" AP story run on Wired News, February 25, 2002
"Technology's Toxic Trash Sent to Poor Nations, by John Markoff, redistribution of New York Times, article, Common Dreams News Center, February 25, 2002
'Dirty little secret of high-tech revolution' By recycling 'e-waste,' U.S. harming people overseas, report says", by Robert McClure, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Monday, February 25, 2002,
“Much toxic computer waste lands in Third World” Special Section: USA Today, 25 Feb. 2002
Group Exposes America's dirty tech secret, by Henry Norr, San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 25, 2002
High-Tech Toxic Trash From USA Found to be Flooding Asia, Waternunc.com, February 25, 2002
Korea Internet(Korean language)
Boston Globe, February 26, 2002
Telegraaf (Netherlands)
Tacoma News Tribune
Associated Press
Anchorage Daily News
Reuters
Le Monde
IPS
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Malaya
L.A Times
Sarasota, FL, Herald-Tribune
Old PCs Go to Jail, by Jonathon Skillings, ZDNet News, February 16, 2002
Inmates Jump on High-Tech Band Wagon, by Jonathan Skillings, ZDNet News, February 14, 2002
US electronics recycling stance challenged, Environment News, February 1, 2002
Electronics and Health
(For high-tech worker health, internationally see high-tech goes global)
Clean Room's Dirty Secrets, by Susan Stranahan, Mother Jones, March-April 2002
Is Chip Industry Really Ready to Confront Health Issue?, Henry Norr, San Francisco Chronicle March 25, 2002
Chip-equipment workers face harmful chemicals, report says, by Matthew Yi, San Francisco Chronicle, March 22, 2002
Chip makers must do toxic chemical studies, not just consider them, Opinion in San Jose Mercury News, March 21, 2002
Semiconductor Industry Health Problems Continue to Mount, SVTC Press Release March 20, 2002
Chip industry to consider health study/Industry panel to look into review of effect of chemicals on workers, Henry Norr, Chronicle Staff Writer, March 20, 2002
Chip makers mull studying cancer risk for industry workers CRITICS SAY ATTITUDE SHIFT TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE, By Julie Sevrens Lyons Mercury News, March 20, 2002
Chips a risky business, by Henry Norr, San Francisco Chronicle, March 18, 2002
Workers take employers to court over birth defects, USA Today, February 26, 2002
Reproductive Hazards for Women in the Workplace,, USA Today, 2/26/2002
Sustainable Water
"Agency, San Jose to Build Pipeline", by Frank Sweeney, San Jose Mercury News, January 23, 2002
High Tech Goes Global
Taiwan Workers Air Health Grievances, by Danielle Knight, IPS, June 7, 2002
Taiwan Workers Plead Cancer Case: Link RCA Plant to Disease by Matthew Yi, San Francisco Chronicle, May 25, 2002
Why tech's pollution is going global, by Jon Skillings, CNET, April 25, 2002
Other articles featuring SVTC
SVTC Website, review of SVTC Website, by Erin Dooley, Environmental Health Perspectives, April 2002
Silicon Death Valley, Polluter Pays Less and less, Grist, February 25, 2002
Toxic Materials Threaten Environment, by Noam Levey, San Jose Mercury News, February 20, 2002
"Schools near toxic sites", by Sara Ballenger, Los Altos Town Crier, January 30, 2002
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