The recycling drives partner SAFE in Hunterdon with Gazelle for Good, the nation's largest reCommerce company, based in Boston, providing a practical, responsible, rewarding way for consumers to get value for used electronics. Gazelle accept products across a wide range of categories and have found a new home for more than 20,000 used electronics, while responsibly recycling thousands more.
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Nonprofit begins campaigns aiming to help abuse victims - 0 views
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A nonprofit group has developed two new campaigns using technology toward their mission to provide safety to victims and survivors of domestic and sexual abuse.
JG-TC.com > News > Cumberland sites to host electronics recycling collection - 0 views
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Host Electronic recycling event collection electronics news
American TV to accept electronics for recycling, Madison, Wisconsin - 0 views
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American TV & Appliance has announced a multilevel electronics recycling initiative that allows the recycling of most electronics, much of it for no fee.
Tulsa World: E-recyclers wired for job - 0 views
Climbing the e-waste mountain - 0 views
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News - Paving Roads with Old Circuit Boards: Scientific American - 0 views
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Millions of printed circuit boards from discarded electronics are tossed into landfills every year. In addition to the volume of waste, the material can leach chemicals into the soil. As an alternative, researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China are finding various ways to reuse the panels, including as an additive in asphalt. -
University of China is using ground-up circuit boards to strengthen cement
WDNR Weekly News Article - New resources on electronics recycling available - 0 views
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6/30/09. Wisconsin businesses, institutions, local governments and organizations involved in recycling and refurbishing unwanted electronics have new tools to help them comply with state and federal regulations and plan successful electronics collection events. Includes information & links to a new WDNR guidance document, which ummarizes requirements that have been in effect since 2007 and includes a flow chart to help electronics handlers determine which regulations apply to them. Also includes links to a document providing tips for hosting a successful electronics recycling event.
EurActiv.com - Towards a recycling society | EU - European Information on Sustainable Dev. - 0 views
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6/30/09. "An EU strategy on preventing and recycling waste aims to pave the way towards a recycling society by decoupling economic growth from natural resource use. But questions remain over whether the issue should be dealt with at national or European level, and on how to reconcile the EU's ecological and internal market objectives in the long run." Includes links to more info. on topic, milestones, policy summary with links, an overview of issues, and the positions of various officials on the subject.
News - State to have an environment policy soon, India - 0 views
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"We will soon set up an integrated e-waste facility within six months in Mumbai and Pune. We have sought expression of interest from the concerned parties to set up the units. We have also made some changes in the river regulation zone policy, which sets distance criteria for setting industries near the river bank," Nair Singh said.
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Appealing to NGOs and citizens for ensuring that non-formal de-assembling units of electronic items do not come up, Nair Singh said that the e-waste must go to authorised recycler.
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"It is a shock for our state that only 17 per cent sewage in the entire state is being treated. Only 24 per cent municipal solid waste is treated, that too partially. All other waste is either dumped or burnt which is damaging the general health. Mumbai and Pune together constitute 40 per cent of the country's e-waste," Nair Singh said.
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Article from The Times of India, 6/30/09. Features comments from state environment secretary and chairperson of Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) Valsa R Nair Singh on draft environmental policy. Some quotes related to e-waste (see annotations).
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