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• Un-Shopping, reCommerce & Building a Business on Buying Less

  
  GreenBiz.com Green Business News — Authority: 613
  Gadget junkies: Its time to explore the possibilities and benefits of stepping off the treadmill of constantly upgrading to the latest and greatest gear, and setting your unwanted electronics free to find second lives.
  2 days ago

• EU to force electronics retailers to accept E-Waste free of charge

  
  Gadgology — Authority: 112
  Under new rules approved by the European Parliament, larger electronics retailers will be required by law to accept old electronic equipment for recycling- without a charge or new purchase. Read more..
  6 days ago

• European Union retailers to be required to accept e-waste without charge, says Parliament

  
  Engadget — Authority: 850
  Not sure what to do with your old, outdated electronics? If you live within the European Union, getting rid of your e-waste may soon be as easy as dropping by the local electronics shop. In an effort to increase electronic waste collection from four kilograms per capita to 20, the European Parliament has ...
  1 week ago

• New Layout

  
  The Greening of Gavin — Authority: 107
  Yesterday, my old PC died.  The main hard drive and one of the memory modules gave up the ghost, and unfortunately I could not find spares for my old clunker.  It was 5.5 years old, so I thought it had a good run. There are a few parts that I can harvest for spares, and I will be sending the old one to e-waste, ...
  1 week ago

• EcoATM recycles you gadgets and pays you for it

  
  RoundedOff — Authority: 119
  Do you know that a machine that recycles gadgets has been borne? Yes, there is an EcoATM machine that is fully automated and is a phone recycler that lets you drop your used old mobiles. Not only this, you also get paid for your used phones in cash. It’s a big cupboard sized machine that has a big touch screen and a ...
  1 week ago

• EcoATM Pays Out Cash In Exchange for Your Unwanted Gadgets

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 695
  The EcoATM made its debut last week at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show , but unlike all the other products that manufacturers hoped you’d throw your hard earned dollars at, this innovative piece of tech wants to give you cash for your gadgets. E-waste is a growing problem with few programs in place with ...
  1 week ago

• What is a Mail-In Recycling Program?

  
  Take On Green — Authority: 97
  A lot of businesses don’t go through lamps very quickly. Smaller locations use less, so naturally they have less to recycle. The easiest thing to do would be toss the lamps in the garbage with everything else, right? Wrong. There are better solutions than putting yourself (you can be charged up to $25,000) and ...
  1 week ago

• "Europe just says out loud what most people are thinking"

  
  Good Point: Ethical Exports, Fair Trade Recycling — Authority: 106
  This is based on an expression we have been hearing from the "far right" in Europe for a couple of decades.   Europe has a "special relationship" with Africa.  They tend to think of themselves as more enlightened, having avoided a century of slave plantations.  But there is a conservative undercurrent.  The ...
  1 week ago

• Hopeline: Verizon Offers Customers a Way to Fight Domestic Violence by Recycling Their Old Phones

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 695
  If you have an old cell phone that you’re not quite sure what to do with, why not recycle it and help a fellow human being out at the same time by donating it to Verizon’s HopeLine ? Through the program, the used phones are refurbished, set up with 3,000 minutes of wireless service and then given to local ...
  1 week ago

• Standards & Compliance Briefing: Apple Supply Chain Audits, Council for Responsible Sports, e-Stewards

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 521
  Apple, Inc. released the names of its suppliers and manufacturing partners, and information on 229 supply-chain audits of compliance with health, safety and environmental standards, reports Safety & Health Practitioner. According to Apple’s website, 112 facilities were not handling hazardous chemicals properly; ...
  1 week ago

• Apple Offers Cash Back For Old Devices Via Reuse And Recycling Program

  
  THE9BILLION — Authority: 492
  Apple has launched a Reuse and Recycling Programme that offers the possibility of money back for old iPhones, iPads, Macs, and even for old PCs. Although this is a new service for the the UK, France and Germany, it’s an extension of a recycling program already operating in the United States, which has offered ...
  1 week ago

• Employer Diligence Lesson: Users are Liars

  
  Good Point: Ethical Exports, Fair Trade Recycling — Authority: 106
  Short important lesson on starting your own recycling company. We have 36 employees.  We started with one truck driver / CEO / Accountant (me).  At the beginning, 0% of our workforce was on drugs. Then, along the way, we rode through a period when the Vermont unemployment rate was below 4%, and we were ...
  1 week ago

• Heading Home From CES Presentation ; ]- "EWaste Not"

  
  Good Point: Ethical Exports, Fair Trade Recycling — Authority: 106
  OECD is 1/5 of world population, but only 1/2 of sales.  How E-Recycling Opens the Market Fair Trade Recycling is a 4:1 Friendship My points on yesterdays panel at CES were that the Geeks of Color , and the buyers in the Emerging / Converging Markets who depend on them, are tomorrows market. 70% of ...
  2 weeks ago

• President Obama’s Speech to EPA Employees, and Other Top Green News Stories

  
  Take On Green — Authority: 97
  Picking the five best “green” news stories every week is no easy task. It seems like each week the news becomes more important and the stories are told in better ways. After a lot of deliberation, here are the five stories that we thought you should have read this past week. 1. President Obama’s Speech to EPA ...
  2 weeks ago

• Standards & Compliance Briefing: BPI Compostable Logo, 2012 IgCC, WEEE, LEED, ISO 50001

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 521
  The Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI) “Compostable Logo” effort will now be administered by NSF International. The NSF will verify claims of compostability in large-scale composting facilities, reviewing data on the biodegradation, disintegration and absence of eco-toxicity. Products include compostable bags, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Recycling Firm Sims Charged with Illegal Waste Discharges by EPA

  
  Waste Age — Authority: 115
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has charged that Sims Metal Management illegally discharged wastes into San Francisco Bay. read more
  2 weeks ago

• Policy & Enforcement Briefing: CSAPR, Mass. Solar Panel Tax, London Low Emission Zone

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 521
  A federal appeals court in Washington approved the request of more than a dozen electric power companies, municipal power plant operators and states to delay the EPA Cross-State Air Pollution rule set to go into effect January 1, which aimed to reduce power plant pollution in 27 states. The court is asking that oral ...
  3 weeks ago

• E-Waste Recycling To Rise, But Not Fast Enough

  
  EarthTechling — Authority: 616
  While great strides are being made to recycle obsolete electronics, often called e-waste , the amount expected to be thrown away is still expected to double in the next 15 years. That’s the latest news from a study out by Colorado-based clean-energy analyst Pike Research. The Pike study forecasts the amount ...
  4 weeks ago

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