E-Waste
E-Waste Decline?
By Steven Averett (steven.averett@penton.com)
New report says amount of e-waste reaching landfills should peak in 2015....
Circular File: Webslinging
By Chaz Miller
The Web has transformed many industries, including solid waste and recycling....
House of Cards
By Bill Wolpin (bill.wolpin@penton.com)
So, it has come to this: Even garbage is worthless. That remark was made by a Beijing businessman who buys and sells recyclables....
Take It Back
By Steven Averett (steven.averett@penton.com)
Sony Electronics introduced the GreenFill recycling service, which allows consumers to recycle small electronics using a drop box at participating retail locations....
The E-Waste Patchwork
By Jason Linnell
In the absence of a federal electronics recycling program, states are passing a variety of laws to divert the products from landfills....
Circular File: Sanitation Prognostication
By Chaz Miller
E-waste recycling and climate change are the two solid waste and recycling issues most likely to receive the attention of state and federal legislators in the coming year....
E-XPANSION
By Chris Carlson (chris.carlson@penton.com)
The Electronic Manufacturers Recycling Management Co. announced a national recycling initiative that includes infrastructure for...
E-Waste Walkin'
Deanna Hart, Assistant Editor
Each day, Christopher Swain straps on his clear, vinyl backpack and sets out into the sweltering heat. His backpack, nearly bursting with more than 61...
Tech Trash Talk
Electronic Waste Continues to be one of the hottest topics in our industry. Part of this stems from the fact that e-waste is the fastest growing segment...
E-waste Abroad
By Chris Carlson
A Resolution Recently proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives is garnering support for a U.S. ban of e-waste exports to developing countries due...
Generation E-waste
Stephen T. Lezinski
Confronting the rising tide of e-waste in Maryland...
We Want Infrastructure
By Chris Carlson
Goodwill Industries, Rockville, Md., testified before the House Science and Technology Committee, and urged Congress to assist in the development of a...
Hello, Newman
By Chris Carlson
The U.S. Postal Service has launched a pilot program in 1,500 post offices throughout the country that will allow customers to recycle small electronics...
Peace in the City
BY CHRIS CARLSON
Compromise separates differences over NYC e-waste....
New Lives for Old Electronics
By Nancy Mann Jackson
Tech companies make it easier to recycle electronic waste....
Recharging Forward
By Chris Carlson
Americans recycled more rechargeable batteries in 2007. ...
Haul of America
Deanna Hart, Assistant Editor
David Kutoff, CEO for Eagan, Minn.-based e-waste recycling firm Materials Processing Corporation (MPC), says he was initially surprised at the number...
Maine passes cell phone recycling legislation
By Chris Carlson
Legislation passed in June, which takes effect in January 2008, will make it illegal to throw away your old cell phones in Maine. State Rep. Christopher...
Panel, Panel on the Wall
Lisa Sepanski
Anticipating the disposal risks associated with flat panel displays....
Data Dilemma
Chris Adam
As businesses refresh their technologies at a faster pace, more computers, monitors and other electronic devices are being disposed of than ever before....
E-Waste Not
Chris Carlson, Associate Editor
Wisconsin governor Jim Doyle's Task Force on Waste Materials Discovery and Disposal has recommended that the state eventually ban electronic waste from...
Illinois governor issues e-waste mandate
Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich has issued an executive order instructing state agencies to recycle electronic equipment at the end of its useful life. ...
Digital Dilemma
Elizabeth Grossman
There are computers in the Himalayas, the Andes and the Arctic, and hardly a place left on earth to which someone has not brought a laptop or cell phone....
Sorting Out E-waste
BY JENNIFER GRZESKOWIAK
For the uninitiated, the slew of issues, as well as state and international regulations governing electronics recycling can be as complicated as computer...
E-Wasting No Time
BY STEVEN AVERETT
THE NATIONAL SOLID WASTES Management Association (NSWMA) in February issued a revised policy on the recycling and disposal of e-waste. The policy arrives...
