Blogs Posts on "E-waste"

Do You Know Where Your Old Computer is? by Go Green N Save on Jul 13, 2009Technology is ever changing and growing. What is new today, is old hat tomorrow. Americans always want to be on the cutting edge, but what happens to the old computer? Many places have "e-waste" drop off points, and most of us assume that the compute...

The Environmental Impact by Green Eco Services on Jul 12, 2009The Environmental Impact It seems we are bombarded with news stories about climate change, CO2 emissions and carbon footprints. We hear about how CO2 from our cars, planes, homes and waste contributes to and exasperates climate change, but we neve...

Computer Take-Back in Rio de Janeiro / A Lei Sobre E-lixo do Municipio de Rio de Janeiro by The Temas Blog on Jun 22, 2009Last week the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro (MRJ) (population 6 million) became the first major Brazilian city to adopt an e-waste law. The law is rather short and simple. It requires manufacturers and suppliers of computers are required to rec...

São Paulo Adopts a WEEE Law by The Temas Blog on Jun 9, 2009The state assembly of the state of São Paulo (SP) today passed a law on “technological trash” (lixo tecnológico) that is likely to have a significant impact on the electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) product and component business...

Beggar Robot by Robotisme on May 29, 2009The Beggar Robot has access to areas normally off-limits to beggars, such as shopping malls and community events, where the richer members of society more often frequent. The hypothesis is that this part of society is only able to show some sympathy...

An E-Waste Bill for Pernambuco by The Temas Blog on May 22, 2009The northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco may go the way of its southern sister state, Paraná, regarding computer-related waste. A bill was just introduced in Pernambuco’s state assembly that appears patterned after Paraná’s Law...

An E-Waste Bill for Colombia by The Temas Blog on Apr 15, 2009After months of rumbling on the issue (here and here), Colombia finally has its first formal proposal to regulate waste electronic and electrical equipment (WEEE or “e-waste” or “e-scrap”) — in this case, in the form of...

Dealing with e-waste: what is this? by blog in 60 seconds on Apr 5, 2009So, what happens to all the electronic waste once it has been discarded?Every few months there are upgraded versions of the appliances that we own. And, as people get tech-savvy, the demand for gadgets just keeps increasing-increasing and just increa...

Object Graveyards: The Afterlife of Everyday Things by WebEcoist on Mar 15, 2009The world is rife with ‘stuff’, and the simple fact is we’re producing new vehicles, gadgets and gizmos faster than we can get rid of the old ones. Tires, airplanes, bicycles and cell phones don’t just magically disappear once they outlive th...