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Environmental Quality
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The following sites are neither endorsed nor supported by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. This list is provided to help you find more information about recycling electronic waste.
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Arrow Electronics. Information about recycling electronics, RoHS Directive, WEEE and more.
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Computer Take Back Campaign, Electronic Waste Recycling Tools for Legislators and Advocates. This site contains information about which states have passed disposal bans, which states have passed electronic waste management legislation, compares the various models of legislation, includes opposition papers by major stakeholders, fact sheets and more. Good resource for understanding what legislation is being discussed and passed around the country.
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Desktop Computer Displays: A Life-Cycle Assessment. This 2001 report was sponsored by the US EPA and published by the University of Tennessee Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies. Included in the study is a detailed look at three components of cathode ray tubes and laptop computers: lead, mercury and liquid crystals.
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Electronic Industries Alliance. "The Electronic Industries Alliance is a federation of Associations and Sectors operating in the most competitive yet innovative industry in existence. They are the critical players in their industries. Each has their own members, their own mission, their own autonomy. United under EIA, they form the premier high technology organization in the world."
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Electronic Product Recovery & Recycling(EPR2) "promoting sound strategies for recovering and recycling electronic equipment"
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ElectronicsRecycling.org is the result of stakeholders involved in a dialogue surrounding the recycling of thermoplastics in electronic equipment. These stakeholders come from the Gordon Institute of Tufts University.
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Federal Electronics Challenge (FEC). The FEC is a new voluntary partnership program that encourages federal facilities and agencies to: Purchase greener electronic products. Reduce impacts of electronic products during use. Manage obsolete electronics in an environmentally safe way. This site contains useful tools for any large organization or government to use to make their use of electronics (computers, cell phones, etc.) more environmentally friendly.
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GreenBlue Design. This website includes information about an electronics competition to encourage cradle to cradle design of popular consumer electronics.
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Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics, 3d Edition. This guide, "ranks leading mobile and PC manufacturers on their global policies and practice on eliminating harmful chemicals and on taking responsibility for their products once they are discarded by consumers. "
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International Association of Electronics Recyclers. This trade association offers many member benefits as well as providing a searchable on-line database for finding electronic recyclers, manufacturers and other companies related to the electronics industry.
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Industry Council for Electronic Equipment Recycling (ICER). This website describes the council as 'a source of knowledge and expertise on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE) issues. It addresses a broad range of measures affecting electrical and electronic equipment. As a cross industry association, it tackles the implications for the whole supply chain.' Available on this site are documents outlining many European mandates that impact global manufacturers.
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Life of a Cell Phone. Geared for teens, this U.S. EPA poster/brochure may be very useful in schools. It provides the reader with some basic facts about the impact cell phones have on our daily lives, how to extend the life of batteries and cellphones, and what happens when old cell phones are properly managed at end of life. Also includes some activities to engage the reader.
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Maine Report on the Recycling of Cellular Telephones , January 2007
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Mid-Atlantic Consortium of Recycling and Economic Development Officials (MACREDO)(s/b macredo.org/projects_electronics.php) Informational site including updates on electronics projects sponsored by MACREDO.
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My Green Eletronics This site is sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association, and is intended to help consumers find recycling options and promote environmentally friendly electronics use.
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National Electronics Products Stewardship (NEPSI). "The National Electronics Product Stewardship Initiative has been created to bring stakeholders together to develop solutions to the issue of electronic products management." This site contains updates about the progress of this group in developing an electronics waste management solution.
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National Electronics Recycling Infrastructure Clearinghouse. This is a project of the
National
Center
for Electronics Recycling and the Consumer Electronics Association. The clearinghouse is created to aid in the development of a national infrastructure for electronics recycling. Immediate projects (January 2006) are to research the applicability of a third party organization (non-government) agency to manage an electronic waste recycling system; promote system harmonization across states; and serve as an industry-backed stakeholder resource on the issue of electronics recycling.
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North Carolina Electronics Website. This site sponsored by the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources contains resources for household, business and government electronics. Some information is state-specific, other resources apply to any generator of electronic waste.
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Northwest Product Stewardship Council The Northwest Product Stewardship Council is a group of government organizations that works with businesses and nonprofit groups to integrate product stewardship principles into the policy and economic structures of the Pacific Northwet. This site contains information about projects involving electronics such as computers, televisions, cell phones, etc.
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Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition. "The most comprehensive site on high-tech impacts on community, worker, and environmental health." Many resources regarding recent legislative and collection activity for electronics as well as other information.
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US EPA "Electronics: A New Opportunity for Waste Prevention, Reuse, and Recycling." This June 2001 fact sheet provides information about the concerns surrounding the growing amount of electronics waste that needs proper management.
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U.S. EPA Resource Conservation Challenge: Plug-in To eCycling! The Plug-In To eCycling Campaign is one of many efforts under EPA's Resource Conservation Challenge, which seeks to increase the national recycling rate to 35 percent and cut the generation of 30 harmful chemicals by 2005.
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U.S. Dept. of Commerce Technology Administration electronic waste documents.
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US EPA WasteWise Update, October 2000 (pdf). This 20-page document contains information regulated hazardous waste generators need to know about how to legally manage their electronic waste.
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U.S. EPA, April 2007, Electronics Waste Management in the United States
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Western Electronic Product Stewardship Initiative. This is a group of stakeholders in the western portion of the
U.S.
who are meeting to develop a strategy for dealing with electronics waste. Currently, the stakeholders have formed subgroups, and are researching four issues: design; the policy and regulatory; financing and market drivers; and the recycling system.
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