UPDATE: Recycling Electronics via the Mail…For Free!
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We have a few more details on yesterdays post about the e-waste recycling mail back program… The USPS will run the pilot program for 90 days in which time they will determine if the consumers response to this program warrants a nation wide roll out.
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Is a device that’s full of toxic hexavalent chromium but uses 7 percent less power really better for the environment? And if the company sells 10,000 more units because of the word “green” on a label, releasing that many more pounds of hazardous chemicals into the eco-system, isn’t that actually worse for the planet? How does a person sort all this out?
PC Magazine leaves the cleaning products to the specialists and will focus on what they knows best: computers. In recent months, PC Magazine has developed a new set of benchmark tests to measure a computer’s “conscience.” Then they solicited “green PCs” from the major PC makers and started testing. The best earn their GreenTech Approved seal. From now on, every PC they test will undergo their proprietary, PC Magazine Labs–based green benchmark tests, and will take careful note of compliance with industry standards such as Energy Star 4.0, EPEAT, and Europe’s Reduction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive. In the coming months, they’ll be devising new ways to evaluate the greenness of printers, monitors, cell phones, and more in all the product categories we will cover.
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Healthcare and electronics applications to lead nanotechnology growth
Posted by George Elvin
Driven by an expected exponential growth in commercialization successes in the healthcare and electronics sectors, worldwide revenues from products incorporating Nanotechnology are projected to exceed US$2.78 trillion by end of the year 2015.
Chemical industry currently dominates the Nanotech arena in terms of maturity of R&D efforts and actual product commercialization, and worldwide revenues are projected to exceed US$82 billion in 2008. Pharma & Healthcare industries for instance are projected to post the fastest annual growth rates in terms of annual revenues from nanotech-incorporated products over the next ten years, at a CAGR of 88.2% over the years 2006 through 2015. Revenues from products incorporating nanotechnology in the semiconductors/electronics arena are projected to exceed US$1 trillion by 2014.
Source: nanotech-now.com
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Recycling Electronics via the Mail…For Free!
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Recycling our bottles, cans and paper is as easy as walking down to the curb once a week, but what about those other things our town doesn’t give us a bin for? The United States Postal Service has answered this question with this weeks launch of a pilot "Mail Back" program. The program make it easier for all of us to recycle our discarded small electronics (inkjet cartridges, PDAs, Blackberries, digital cameras, iPods & MP3 players), as easy as walking down to your mailbox.
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Different Visions of Electronics Recycling
Posted by Kassblog
E-Cycle Environmental
E-Cycle Environmental practices a no re-sell policy of any of the electronics we process through our organization, regardless of functionality. Obsolete electronics have no place in the modern economy for numerous reasons:
-Very few organizations will except donations
-Computers only a couple of years old are obsolete
-Companies can invest in new electronics for minimal cost
-Used electronics are usually very unreliable
-Obsolete electronics take up valuable square footage
-Obsolete electronics are tremendous liabilities
FreeGeek
FREE GEEK receives donated used computers and refurbishes them with care. They are then "adopted out" to volunteers in exchange for 24 hours of service in our recycling facility. We call this the "adoption program," and anyone willing to come down and work is eligible to join us and adopt a machine. The computer systems we create, called FreekBoxes, are loaded with the GNU/Linux operating system and other Free Software.
Any computer equipment, working or not, can be donated to FREE GEEK; we will repair and reuse what computers we can. Non-functioning computers and scrap will be recycled responsibly. Computers that are deemed obsolete or broken are demanufactured and separated into their basic components. FREE GEEK then finds a local industrial recycler to process the materials.
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