Sentences with phrase «of electronic waste»

All I needed was access to a lifetime of electronic waste.

Now, a local recycling company says it has found a better way to get rid of electronic waste.

Voluntary recycling programs on the part of manufacturers do little good in collecting the millions of pounds of electronic waste generated annually.

Kyle Wiens of iFixIt again says that such a transition could create millions of tons of electronic waste as everyone throws out their old, obsolete accessories.

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«Given the millions of tons of electronic waste generated worldwide every year, the recyclability of our e-skin makes good economic and environmental sense.»

Fairphone hopes this will reduce the enormous amount of electronic waste currently contributed by discarded consumer electronics — reported to be 41 million tonnes worldwide.

Mexico's National Institute of Ecology, or INE, recently released a study entitled «Diagnostic on the generation of electronic waste in Mexico» by the Interdisciplinary Center for Research and Studies on Environment and Development (CIIEMAD).

The industry is beset by allegations of factory - worker abuse, of raw materials being sourced from conflict zones, and of generating mountains of electronic waste.

Concerned that lead and other potentially harmful materials used in those devices could enter the environment, states and municipalities have moved to prevent disposal of electronic waste with conventional trash.

Hubert has designed the wristband to be injection - moulded from recycled discarded devices, to take advantage of the 20 to 50 million tonnes of electronic waste generated around the world each year.

While nuclear waste is contained in heavy drums and regularly monitored, solar waste outside of Europe today ends up in the larger global stream of electronic waste.

The average American household produces 1,140 kg of electronic waste over 20 years as compared to solar households which produce between 1,500 kg to 1,900 kg over 20 years, depending on the size of their solar system.

Shipping less phones at higher price might even decrease the amount of electronic waste as people keep their old iPhones for far longer

Two years after its enactment, a New York state law governing the recycling of electronic waste is making an impact according to a progress report.

Separately, the governor said he expected environmentalists to criticize his decision to withdraw about $ 74 million from the environmental fund, but praise a new plan for making it easier to safely discard of electronic waste, such as old CD players.

Not particularly known for its prowess, the Richmond County (Staten Island) party organization is backing de Blasio for a variety of hyperlocal reasons, including the mayor's work to repave the borough's roads, implementation of 24 - hour ferry service, expansion of electronic waste removal, and other factors, according to Chair John Gulino, who called de Blasio «a true champion of Staten Island» in an endorsement statement that also touches on broader themes like crime reduction.

Funding Curbside Pickup Program: Last year, the city funded a pilot program in Staten Island, proposed by Council Member Steven Matteo, allowing residents to request curbside pickups of electronic waste for recycling.

«Discarded cellphones are a huge, growing source of electronic waste, with close to two billion new cellphones sold every year around the world and people replacing their phones every few years,» said UBC mining engineering professor Maria Holuszko, who led the research.

Some originate from the burning of fuel or the processing of electronic waste, and others are widely used as pesticides or herbicides or in the manufacture of solvents, plastics and pharmaceuticals.

Not long ago, we addressed Mexico's struggles in managing its burgeoning mounds of electronic waste.

The global volume of electronic waste is expected to grow by 33 % in the next four [continue reading...]

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.

California Electronic Asset Recovery has been proudly servicing California since 2000, processing and recycling over 2 million lbs of electronic waste every month and diverting over 25 million lbs...

Environmental activists disrupted the world's largest mobile phone conference with a provocative piece of 3D pavement art highlighting the growing problem of electronic waste.

«Fact Sheet: MANAGEMENT OF ELECTRONIC WASTE IN THE UNITED STATES.»

When discussing H.R. 2595: To restrict certain exports of electronic waste, authors of an article in Environmental Science and Technology argued that such bills could only make «backyard recycling» worse:

They were the first to document the widespread abuse of electronic waste dumping in developing countries and created the e-Stewards program as corporate partnership program to promote responsibility in the e-waste management sector.

«The GAO report paints a picture of electronic waste anarchy in the U.S., with little regulation, no enforcement, and unscrupulous recyclers setting the stage for the U.S. to dump its e-waste on the rest of the world,» said Jim Puckett, Coordinator of the Basel Action Network, a toxic trade watchdog group that first exposed the problems with e-waste export to China in 2002.

Recently California announced that it has engaged the services of a PR firm to conduct a campaign of public service announcements on the subject of electronic waste.

State officials say more than 318 million pounds of electronic waste was diverted from landfills during

Not only will this force iPhone users to dole out additional cash to replace their hi - fi headphones, it will singlehandedly create mountains of electronic waste — that likely won't get recycled.»

One of the first analyses of laws banning disposal of electronic waste (e-waste) in municipal landfills has found that state e-waste recycling bans have been mostly ineffective, although California's Cell Phone Recycling Act had a positive impact on cell phone recycling.

Following the recent depressing news that 41.8 million tonnes of electronic waste was thrown away in 2014, it's wonderful to discover an artist who is doing her bit for recycling by transforming old circuit boards and computer components into beautiful winged insects.

Manitoba â $ cents Temporary drop - off locations were established this year from May 1 to Sept. 30; in 2007 some 305,000 kg of electronic waste was kept from landfills due to the initiative, which has existed for two years.

Hoping to raise awareness about this growing problem, American conceptual photographer Benjamin Von Wong created this series of cutting - edge images, using 4,100 pounds of electronic waste — the approximate amount of electronics that one American will go through in their lifetime.

The study estimated that between 150,000 and 180,000 tons of electronic waste were generated in 2006, including laptop and desktop computers, recorders, fixed - line telephones, cellular telephones and televisions.

«In California, 65 million pounds of electronic waste has been diverted from landfills,» John explains.

This latest e-skin is special because it's recyclable — and that's an important added bonus if you consider that in the US alone, 16 billion pounds of electronic waste was created in 2014.