ELECTRONIC RECYCLING CRISIS
“Eliminate
Toxic Chemicals”, Greenpeace International
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/toxics
“How green is the valley?”,
Electronic Business
http://www.reed-electronics.com/eb-mag/article/CA603505?ref=nbcs
(June 1, 2006)
“Tossing E-Waste Not So Easy”,
The Mercury News
Tossing
EWaste Not Easy.pdf (May 8, 2006)
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Mike Foody, CEO, Global
Imagination, demonstrating the Magic Planet® digital
video globe which showed the global effect
of pollution on the environment– at Acterra
and Greencitizen’s High Tech Harvest
2005.
Photo Source: Jack Walshe |
“China's
E-Waste Problem: Facing Up to the Challenge”,
China Watch
China’s E-waste Problem.pdf (May 4, 2006)
“Trash that PC in an eco-friendly way”,
CNET News
Trash
that PC EcoFriendly.pdf (April 24, 2006)
"
Voluntary cell-phone recycling is an utter failure” The
Mercury News
Voluntary
cell phone recycling failure.pdf (April
24, 2006)
“Where computers go to die – and kill”,
Salon.com
Where
computers go to die.pdf (April 10, 2006)
“It’s
Tough To Be Green”, [Impact of RoHS], Electronic
Business
http://www.reed-electronics.com/eb-mag/article/CA6310931?ref=nbcs
(March 1, 2006)
“California to electronics industry: No toxins for you!”,
Ars technica
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060224-6254.html (February 24, 2006)
“The Problem with Recycling”,
Electronic Business
The
problem with recycling.pdf (January 1, 2006)
A Government Accountability Office (GAO) Report
Addresses Electronic Waste Issues
http://p2library.nfesc.navy.mil/issues/emergejan2006/index.html (January,
2006)
“High Tech Toxic
Trash Exported to Africa”, Basel Action Network
Toxic_Trade_Africa.pdf (October 24, 2005)
“Ready or Not: Environmental
Laws Are Coming” Electronic News
Ready or
Not Environmental Laws.pdf (July 27, 2005)
“Electronic Waste – Overview
of US Legislation”
National Conference of State Legislatures
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/environ/cleanup/elecwaste.htm (July, 2005)
Technology Administration
TESTIMONY
Benjamin H. Wu, Asst. Secretary for Technology Policy,
U.S. Department of Commerce before the House Committee
on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment
and Hazardous Materials http://www.technology.gov/testimony/p_BHW_050720.htm (July 20, 2005)
“Activists Push for Safer E-Recycling.” NPR.org.
Activists
Push for Safer ERecycling.pdf (April 6, 2002)
“Chip-equipment workers face harmful chemicals,
report says” San Francisco Chronicle
Chip
Equip Workers Harmful Chemicals.pdf (March 22,
2002 )
“Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia”,
Basel Action Network
technotrashfinalcomp.pdf (Feb. 25, 2002)
“Electronic Product Management -Archived News:
2001”, California Integrated Waste Management
Board, http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/Electronics/News/2001.htm,
(Multiple items spanning 2001)
“6.1 Million Old TVs and Computer Monitors Stockpiled
in California”, Integrated Waste Management Board,
http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/Pressroom/2001/December/048.htm
(December, 2001)
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