What is the Basel Convention on E-waste? In August of 1986, a Liberian cargo ship named the Khian Sea embarked from an East Coast port carrying nearly 15,000 tons of ash taken from Philadelphia waste incinerators. Previously, Philadelphia had sent ash waste to New...
E-Waste and Climate Change Knowledge of greenhouse gases and their ability to artificially heat the earth emerged in the late 1800s. Experiments performed by forward-thinking scientists suggested that factory-produced CO2 could possibly form a type of insulating...
One-stop Recycling —Why It Matters.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reports that every time one million laptops are recycled, the amount of energy saved would power 3500 households in one year. In addition, recycling one million cell phones recovers nearly 800...
Extended Producer Responsibility—Placing Liability Where It Belongs When product manufacturers develop plans to build and market a particular product, they have one goal in mind–to profit off a product that costs considerably less than what it costs to make the...
Global Electronic Waste Management The ewaste international dumping disaster began several decades ago when an international treaty called the Basel Convention was enacted by many European Union and NATO countries in 1989. The purpose of this treaty involved...
Nearly 30 states now have some kind of statewide electronic waste recycling program to make it easier for businesses and individual consumers to safely dispose of electronic devices. Most materials used to make today’s electronics can be recycled using a variety...
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