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"WM Recycle America Adopts Responsible Recycling (R2) Program for Electronic Waste Recycling"

CEH report, Oct. 2006. In the past few years, the storm of complaints about UNICOR's recycling program from prisoners, prison guards, and others has brought these hidden sweatshops into public view. Since 1994, UNICOR has built a lucrative business that employs prisoners to recycle electronic waste (e-waste). A massive array of ewaste is largely hidden from view, as are the workers who handle the waste. Over 100,000 computers become obsolete in the U.S. every day. E-waste includes computers, personal digital assistants, TVs, and other electronic devices. E-waste is a doubleedged sword: it is rich in precious materials that can be recycled, but it also contains a cocktail of hazardous chemicals such as lead, mercury, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and cadmium. This report examines the e-waste recycling programs run by Federal Prison Industries (FPI), a government-owned corporation that does business under the trade name UNICOR.

"EnviroCom opens UK's largest eWaste recycling plant"

"WM Recycle America adopts electronic waste recycling program "

"Electronic Recyclers International Addresses Second Annual International Electronics Recycling Conference & Expo "

"he Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® and Earth911 today announced a partnership to make information about electronics recycling easier to access than ever. The largest trade association promoting growth in the consumer electronics industry, CEA will work with Earth911 as the official recycling partner of CEA and the International CES® to bring new e-cycling resources to both mobile and web platforms. "

"NYS Senate Passes eWaste Bill"

"Peak technology body applauds national eWaste scheme"

Two Democratic U.S. Senators -- Amy Klobuchar of Minn. and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York -- introduced earlier this month legislation aimed at funding R&D efforts to improve to recycle e-waste and develop best practices and innovation in greener design of electronics. The Electronic Device Recycling Research and Development Act, a nearly identical version of which passed the U.S. House of Representatives in April, provides almost $85 million over the next three years to help spur the growth of electronics recycling practices in the U.S. The bill, S. 1397, includes four main initiatives: providing grants for R&D into e-waste processes and practices, funding research into environmentally friendly materials for use in electronics, establishing educational curricula for engineering students at all levels to incorporate green design practices into electronics, and publishing a report from the National Academy of Sciences laying out the good and the bad in the current state of electronics recycling.

"Connecticut Launches E-Recycling Program"

"ONLINE GUY: E-recycler sees pieces of prosperity in obsolete gadgets"

"Electronics recycling programs continue to proliferate across the country as well as internationally. There are now 23 states with some type of electronics recycling law, all at different stages of implementation and with varying rules and regulations. Many are looking for joint solutions to common problems as well as areas where they can harmonize and share lessons learned. "

"I'm working on another post, not ready for publication yet, How to Become an "e-waste" or e-Scrap Recycler Vendor, (and paper recycler, transfer station operator). In those posts you may get to read good advice about the particulars of entering those businesses. But before you even start, below are some common "Dos and Don´ts" which are common to all recycling businesses, and to other wholesale businesses as well. "

"NY Computer Recycler Pleads Guilty to Receiving Illegal Payments"