Sentences with phrase «at electronic waste»
«EPA currently has 10 ongoing investigations and the [regional offices] plan to conduct inspections at electronic waste collection and recycling facilities this year,» wrote assistant administrators Granta Nakayama and Susan Parker Bodine in response.
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A group of fourth graders at Ballentine Elementary school in Fuquay - Varina are working on solving one of the world's problems — electronic waste, starting right here in North Carolina.
As EA's John Buchanan commented at TGS 2005, when it was revealed that Electronic Arts Los Angeles was on «the cutting edge» of the RenderWare implementation: «For the most part, the understanding is that we want to get ready to innovate and experiment, and in order to do that, we need to stop wasting time by re-inventing a rendering or animation engine.»
Electric lawnmowers are classed as Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and can be recycled at the househouse waste recycling centre with other electrical items.
Sci Dev Net: The amount of electronic waste produced globally is set to grow by a third between 2012 and 2017, according to a forecast made by experts at a global partnership created to tackle e-waste.
John Shegerian of Electronic Recyclers International has a great overview of the challenges presented by our growing pile of discarded electronics, and some of the opportunities presented by this waste, today at Triple Pundit.
A large number of what is labeled as «e-waste» is actually not waste at all, but rather whole electronic equipment or parts that are readily marketable for reuse or can be recycled for materials recovery.
When I realized that Nic Lewis was trying to assess surface temperature data during and after the transition from thermometers to electronic recordings and there had been only one station that had an overlap of the two monitoring systems and that was looked at 20 years retrospectively, I thought, what a colossal waste of Lewis's good brain power.
Electronic waste is a global problem, and if you look at the statistics, it's a problem of staggering proportions.
«The term «restricted electronic waste» shall not apply to covered electronic equipment or parts which are tested prior to export, and are found to be functional for the purpose for which the equipment or parts were designed, or in the case of «multi-function devices,» fully functional for at least one of the primary purposes for which the equipment or parts were designed and appropriately packaged and labeled for shipment»
«At the very least, companies should inform consumers about what they can do with electronic waste,» said Luis Alberto García, director of Environmental Recycling, a company involved with recycling of electronics.:: Via El Universal (Spanish link)
Shipping less phones at higher price might even decrease the amount of electronic waste as people keep their old iPhones for far longer