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Joy Scrogum

Michigan Legislative Analysis: Electronic Takeback and Recycling Programs - 0 views

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    Summary of House Bills 6714-6715 and Senate Bills 896-897 as reported by house committee, 12/3/08. "In general, this package of bill would add a new Part 173 (Electronics) to the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act to require manufacturers and recyclers of covered electronic devices (covered computers and covered video display devices) to register annually with the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), pay annual registration fees to a new Electronic Recycling Fund, and to require manufacturers to operate takeback programs for covered devices used by individuals and small businesses. The bills are tie-barred to one another, meaning all must be enacted for any to go into effect."
Amy Cade

The Challenge of Hazardous Waste Management in a Sustainable Environment: Insights from... - 0 views

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    New and pending regulations requiring product take-back by manufacturers at the time of disposal are intended to create a new era of industrial ecology and environmental sustainability. However, the intended benefits of the current legislation can be confounded by obsolescence in product design based upon advances in science and technology and also by the introduction of more environmentally benign product designs.
Joy Scrogum

National policy targets e-waste - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - 0 views

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    Australia: Computers and televisions will be recycled under a new National Waste Policy to be implemented next year.
Amy Cade

News - Green Machine - Woodland Computers is on a mission to pull the plug on electroni... - 0 views

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    A small company in Lexington, Kentucky taking in and selling high quality used and sometimes news equipment.
Amy Cade

News - Jacksonville goes back to drawing board over e-waste | Jacksonville.com - 0 views

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    Seven months after one company bid on a $40,000 contract to recycle the electronics Jacksonville residents put out with their trash, City Hall plans to start over from scratch.The reason: fear that those old televisions and computers might be dumped half way around the world.
Laura Barnes

Cell Phone Ecology : Finding New Homes for Old Phones (By Sarah (Steve) Mosko) - 1 views

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    "It's not much of a stretch to liken America's relationship with cells phones to a once sizzling romance that ends in goodbye. Fated love affairs typically begin with blind infatuation and fiery passion before reality sets in, cooling the embers enough to allow more guarded, sometimes less attractive aspects of the self to surface. Interest wanes until the love object is abandoned or replaced by an alluring new one. Americans relate to cell phones in much the same way. An old phone, with once novel features that drew fascination, is discarded with hardly a thought when an updated model makes it seem obsolete. That consumers replace cell phones about every two years makes this analogy seem less silly. A parallel can be drawn, too, between the innards of a cell phone and what is revealed when one person lets another peek inside: it's not all pretty. Some nasty materials lurk behind the bright shiny casing, making cell phone disposal a knotty environmental issue, analogous to ending, with minimal damages, a relationship gone sour. "
Amy Cade

Benefits of buying refurbished: Savings, selection, sustainability - 0 views

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    Deciding between new or used computers? Here's a rundown on the benefits of buying refurbished equipment:
Amy Cade

Wilton, CT News - Revamped Recycling - 0 views

  • Consumer electronics such as TV sets, computers, monitors, routers, printers, copy machines and other larger electronics will require a drop-off fee, however. Transfer station tickets to dump non-recyclables may be purchased at Town Hall, or by mail.
Joy Scrogum

Where, Exactly, Does Your Garbage Go After You Toss It out? - 0 views

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    Scientific American, 7/17/09, article by Larry Greenemeier. Most people assume that their trash ends up in a landfill somewhere far away (if they think about this at all). But growing concern over the environmental impact of waste-discarded electronics, in particular-has prompted a team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to take a high-tech approach to studying exactly what people are tossing out and where those items are ending up. The researchers, part of MIT's Senseable City Lab, have developed electronic tags that they're hoping as many as 3,000 volunteers in Seattle and New York City will affix to different items they throw away this summer as part of the Trash Track program. These tags will contact cell phone towers they pass as they flow through the trash stream to their final destinations, helping the researchers monitor the patterns and costs of urban disposal.
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