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e-Waste Recycling News
March 01, 2011
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Two recycling companies were recently caught trying to export e-waste, including CRT monitors, to Vietnam. Metro Metals Corp., based in Toronto, Canada, and Avista Recycling Inc., based in Hopkins, Minnesota, have been ordered by the Environmental Protection Agency to properly dispose of the comp.....
December 27, 2010
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It seems like a good idea. Companies and even local governments will often sponsor e-waste recycling events. You assume they’ve done their due diligence and happily drop offer your old electronics. That’s what people in Denver thought last year as an army of cheerful volu.....
July 09, 2010
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A United Nations report described how mountains of hazardous waste from electronic products are growing exponentially in developing countries.
It said India would have 500% more e-waste from discarded computers in 2020 than in 2007, and 18x more discarded cell phones.
The risks.....
March 22, 2010
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A proposal under debate in Congress to ban the export of electronics waste would likely make a growing global environmental problem even worse, says an article from the journal Environmental Science and Technology.The authors call into question conventional thinking that trad.....
February 25, 2010
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Unless developing countries act quickly, they will be inundated with overwhelming hazardous e-waste mountains of old cellphones, computers and gadgets that endanger the environment. The study, released by the U.N. Environment Program, says that most e-waste in China, for example, is improperly .....
February 05, 2010
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Your doctor, lawyer, or tax preparer could all be unwittingly giving away your very private information. And they're doing it by using copy machines. The copy machine is an important and seemingly harmless part of our lives. And when it's time to upgrade, the old ones are sometimes.....
January 22, 2010
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The EPA issued an order seeking penalties up to $37,500 per day to ZKW Trading for failing to properly manage electronic waste that it attempted to export to Hong Kong.EPA issued the penalty order after .....
November 11, 2009
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Associate Professor John Katers at UW-Green Bay knows a lot about the heavy metals inside TV's and computers.
His specializes in recycling and pollution prevention, so he's also pretty familiar with how electronic equipment can hurt the environment if it's dumped at a landfil.....
October 12, 2009
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A good example where if it seems to good to be true, it probably is.
A furniture company allowed the local Humane Society to use an empty warehouse to store discarded electronic equipment gathered in fundraisers. But the recycling company, EarthEcycle, never took care of the waste. S.....
