The event featured more than 60 exhibits and 40 speakers including executives from Panasonic, Flextronics, Oracle/Sun, Blue coat Systems, Techturn, Umicore, Boliden, Redemtech and several other leaders in the electronics recycling industry.
Honorees at the event included Sprint-Nextel for “sustainability leadership” ,1-800-RECYLING received the “best recycling resource” . Eco-ATM was honored with the “most innovative product of the year award” , Green Spot Drop Off was honored as the “collection program of the year”. PowerON Services Inc was awarded as the “fastest growing computer hardware company” . M.A.I.T- India was recognized for it’s responsible e-waste management outreach efforts in India & Creative Recycling Systems Inc was awarded as the “electronics recycler of the year”.

The International Electronics Recycling Conference & Expo has fast become a premier networking & learning platform for electronics manufacturers, resellers, recyclers and other stake holders in the electronics waste management industry.

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Four  U.S senators introduced legislationThursday aimed at the fees wireless carriers charge when subscribers change providers before their contracts are up. The bill, dubbed the Cell Phone Early Termination Fee, Transparency and Fairness Act, would cap those early-termination fees based on the price of the phone, and would pro-rate fees based on the time left on the contract.

“Forcing consumers to pay outrageous fees bearing little to no relation to the cost of their handset devices is anti-consumer and anti-competitive,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), one of the bill’s sponsors, said in a statement.

“It’s allowing consumers more information and also making sure that the industry isn’t sticking it to consumers,” a spokeswoman for the senator added.

Early-termination fees have attracted criticism from some lawmakers, regulators and consumer groups, who say they’re too high and too complicated. Most of the major wireless carriers, including Verizon Wireless, AT&T and Sprint, have faced disputesrelated to their fees.

Carriers say these fees help them avoid losing money when customers back out of their contracts early, since they often sell phones at a discount and recoup the costs through monthly fees.

The bill’s announcement calls out Verizon Wireless, which recently raised its early-termination fee for some smart phones to $350. (The carrier also sells standard cellphones with lower fees, as well as no-contract handsets.)

Jeffrey Nelson, a Verizon Wireless spokesman, pointed out that subsidized options enable consumers to get devices they wouldn’t otherwise have access to. “This is not about collecting fees, it’s about putting state-of-the-art devices into the hands of the most people possible, at affordable prices,” he said.

“Nobody is required to pay an early termination fee,” he added. “You always have the choice of buying a mobile device at full price, or at a discount with a one- or two-year contract. And if you stay with your contract, you don’t pay a fee at all.”

Wireless-industry trade group CTIA, in a statement, called the legislation unnecessary, saying that the competitive nature of the business has already prompted carriers to offer pro-rated termination fees. “This type of prescriptive mandate runs the very real risk of limiting consumer options in the future,” it said.

But Joel Kelsey, a policy analyst at Consumers Union, said that those pro-rating policies usually aren’t enough to make a difference, particularly for subscribers near the end of their contracts. The bill, he said, “would force carriers to make sure that their fee actually represents the discount that they’re giving to consumers for the cost of the device.”

In addition to Sen. Klobuchar, the bill’s other sponsors included Sens. Russ Feingold (D., Wisc.), Jim Webb (D., Va.) and Mark Begich (D., Alaska).

To help achieve these dual goals, the US technology bellwether, popularly known as HP, has teamed up with a German company to recycle disposable ink cartridges from HP printers.

Once used, the plastic cartridges would otherwise end up in rubbish landfills or incinerators, aggravating the problem of solid waste pollution. Together with its partner Produkte Durch Recycling, HP is trying to set an example for environmental responsibility, and asking its customers to join in the effort.

Produkte Durch Recycling, which translates as Products Derived from Recycling, or PDR, is one of three recyclers that HP works with worldwide. It handles HP printer cartridges sent for recycling from Europe, the Middle East and Africa; HP has partnered with other companies to recycle cartridges in the Americas and Asia.

PDR has already won several awards in Germany for its recycling expertise. On a recent visit to its facility in the south-central German city of Thurnau, this Khaleej Times reporter found that PDR seems to be meeting expectations.

The firm’s operations take place in a suitably bucolic setting, in a building the size of a warehouse located amid apple orchards and farms a half-hour drive from Thurnau. In an orderly but often noisy process, green-shirted employees work alongside conveyor belts to sort newly arrived cartridges by model type, feed the cartridges into a crusher and then re-sort the pulverised remains.

Workers use pallet jacks to shunt boxes of cartridges from the first sorting station to the crushing machine, which spits out a psychedelic stream of particles, powders and other residue. PDR staff members shout to be heard above the din, but the noise is bearable.

A separate unit the size and shape of a space capsule even bleeds unused ink from each cartridge.

Employees package all the leftover plastics, metals and resins and bottle the unused printer ink. PDR then ships the materials elsewhere to be used in the manufacture of new cartridges.

It’s all part of what HP calls its “Closed-Loop” Inkjet Plastics Recycling scheme. Every step in the process is designed to meet hugh standards of environment awareness and cost-efficiency. But the system depends on individual, green-minded customers who deliver their used cartridges to local HP dealers, which then feed the junk into the company’s international recycling loop.

HP began recycling electronics back in 1987. It officially launched its HP Planet Partners recycling programme for printer cartridges in 1991. Since then, the Palo Alto, California-based company says it has recycled more than 300 million inkjet and LaserJet printer cartridges.

HP Planet Partners tries to make it easy for customers in more than 50 countries to recycle printer cartridges and other IT equipment. In 2007, HP achieved its goal of recycling one billion pounds of equipment and cartridges, and the company aims to double that amount by 2010.

HP hopes its sense of environmental responsibility rubs off on more off               its customers.

“The results are outstanding,” said Bruno Zago, HP’s environmental manager for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. “Since 1992, HP has reduced the number of parts in each LaserJet cartridge by 33 per cent, and the types of plastic resins used by half.”

The Europe, Middle East and Africa region is HP’s smallest territory, accounting for $5 billion in annual sales, but it’s growing fast. The Americas account for $9 billion in sales, while the Asia-Pacific region tops the list with $38 billion.

HP delivers 110,000 printers, 75,000 personal systems and 3,500 servers daily, so the challenge it faces in trying to reduce the environmental impact from all these products is huge. It seeks, therefore, to design its products, tools and services so that they use less energy and conserve scarce resources, and it encourages their reuse and recycling.

HP has identified four areas — energy efficiency, resource conservation, reuse and recycling, and green alternatives — that it believes to be most important to its customers and where it can make the biggest positive impact.

“The OS is not the reason people upgrade their PCs,” says Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner. “On the consumer side, people upgrade their PCs if their current PC is old or if they want more PCs in their home or if the price is really good,” she says. “But people don’t buy simply because a new operating system is available.”

On the business side, Windows 7 won’t have an impact on sales to business until at least the second half of next year.

IT departments at companies usually test a new OS for about a year before rolling it out company-wide. Usually companies need to test a new OS to see how their applications run and if there are any glitches, says Kitagawa.

However, although Windows 7 won’t immediately impact PC sales, computer shipments will rise over the next year. In fact, shipments are already increasing

PC unit shipments increased 0.5% in the third quarter of 2009 compared to the third quarter of 2008. Shipments in the third quarter were 18% higher than the second quarter. In 2010, shipments will increase 12.6%, says Kitagawa.

PC shipments will rise as the economy recovers. Many companies have delayed buying new computers because of the downturn, but their current computers systems are getting old and need to be replaced.

However, while unit shipments have increased, PC revenue declined 20% in the third quarter and will be down 16% for the year, says Kitagawa. Many consumers are opting to buy low-priced netbooks, which cost less than full-featured notebooks and desktops. That is putting pressure PC OEMs to lower the cost of notebooks.

The improvement in orders and bookings in September resulted in the printed circuit board book-to-bill ratio rising to 1.08. That means board manufacturers received $108 in new orders for every $100 of shipments they shipped in September.

The growth in orders and shipments is an indicator that the printed circuit board industry is turning around, says IPC President Denny McGuirk.

He notes that both rigid printed circuit board and flexible circuit sales and orders increased in September compared to August. Rigid PCB shipments grew by 21.7% from August and bookings increased 29.7%, says IPC. Flexible circuit shipments in September 2009 went up 7.9% and bookings increased 12.1% compared to September 2008.

The seven companies are designing out substances from their products that can damage the environment, says the report, Greening Consumer Electronics: Moving Away from Bromine and Chlorine. The report was conducted by ChemSec of Sweden and Clean Production Action (CPA) of the U.S.

Bromine is used in brominated flame retardants (BFRs), which are added to materials to inhibit their ignition and slow their rate of combustion. Chlorine is in polyvinyl chloride (PVC), which is used in insulation for cables in electronics equipment.

Some BFRs are toxic and bio-accumulate, meaning they build up in humans and animals over time. The manufacture of PVC involves use of hazardous raw materials, including vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) which is highly toxic and carcinogenic.

“The biggest concern with brominated and chlorinated products in electronics is their end-of-life treatment,” says Alexandra McPherson, CPA project director. “We don’t have an infrastructure to handle toxic chemicals.”

She says most electronics products when they reach end of life are exported to developing countries for waste treatment. “We are finding high levels of dioxin contamination in China were they are handling electronics waste.” Some of that contamination is from brominated and chlorinated chemicals used in electronics.

The companies cited in the report have eliminated or greatly reduced bromine and chloride chemicals in their products. The companies are:

• Apple. Apple restricts the use of nearly all bromine and chlorine compounds across all its product lines. The company offers a range of PVC-and BFR-free products, including iPhones and iPods. Its computers are free of BFRs and most uses of PVC.

• Sony Ericsson. Sony Ericsson’s products are now 99.9% BFR free and will have no PVC components by the end of 2009.

• Seagate. The disk drive manufacturer is building new drives that no longer use chlorine- and bromine-based chemistries.

• DSM Engineering Plastics. The plastics manufacturer is among the first to have a complete portfolio of plastics that are free of bromine and chlorine. The company produces a high-temperature polyamide 4T polymer with bromine-free grades for connectors and sockets and a thermoplastic co-polyester that can replaces PVC-based wire and cables.

• Nan Ya and Indium. Nan Ya, a major laminate manufacturer, and Indium, a high-end manufacturer of solder paste and flux, are making bromine- and chlorine-free components for printed circuit boards.

• Silicon Storage Technology. The flash memory manufacturer supplies bromine-free chips to Apple and other OEMs.

“These seven companies demonstrate that there are less toxic and still cost-effective alternatives to substances of high concern that do not compromise performance or reliability,” says McPherson.

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) recently released its Key Administrative Catalog for the Pollution Control of Electronic Information Products (Batch 1). The long-awaited document says that all forms of printers and telephones, including mobile, traditional landline and networking handsets, will have to be tested before they can be sold in China once this phase of the law is formally adopted by the Chinese government. However, more types of equipment will likely be included in future catalog “batches,” says Michael Kirschner, president of Design Chain Associates, a San Francisco consultancy that advises OEMs about environmental issues.

China RoHS, like Europe’s RoHS, restricts the use of lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, traditional landline and networking handsets, will have to be tested before they can be sold in China once this phase of the law is formally adopted by the Chinese government. However, more types of equipment will likely be included in future catalog “batches,” says Michael Kirschner, president of Design Chain Associates, a San Francisco consultancy that advises OEMs about environmental issues. polybrominated biphenyls and polychlorinated ethers in electronics equipment. Phase 1 of China RoHS went into effect in 2007. However, at that time the only requirement was that OEMs label their products as being compliant to the law or not. The testing requirement is in phase 2 of the law, which included the release of the catalog.

The catalog release was supposed to occur in late 2007, says Gary Nevison, legislation and environmental affairs manager for electronics distributors Premier Farnell and Newark.

“But that slipped to mid 2008, then to mid 2009 and now two years on, here we are,” he says. “This is what the world was waiting for. In fact, the world got fed up waiting for it. But this is where China RoHS kicks into.”

While the law says products will have to be tested in China before they can be sold, details of the testing, including which test houses will be used, have not been released, says Nevison.

“China has said do not start testing until we tell you how to test, where to test and how to fill out the test forms,” says Kirschner at Design Chain Associates. “Presumably they are going to come out with some forms.”

Companies that sell electronics products in China can send comments about the law to MIIT during a “consultation” period that ended Nov. 9. After that, the Chinese government may approve the law and then the restrictions would go into effect 10 months after the approval.

The question is, will 10 months be enough for manufacturers to have their products tested and show compliance to the law? If they can’t show compliance in that timeframe, “the products cannot be sold in China,” Nevison says. “It will be interesting to see what happens.”

Collectors and recyclers of obsolete electronics have until January  1st to enroll with the state’s E-Waste Program created by a law passed by the General Assembly this year.

The new law specifies that only collectors and recyclers enrolled in the program can work with electronics manufacturers who will soon be responsible for collecting and recycling the devices they sell in the state of Indiana.

Makers of computer monitors, laptops, and televisions must register with the state by April 1, 2010. If they fail to do so they won’t be allowed to sell their products in Indiana. This is a similar scenario with the controversial scenario in the state of New York, which is currently in litigation between the state and several electronic manufacturer trade groups.

Paragon Green is a joint venture formed by McFarland, founder and owner of CCR, and Tom Drake, founder and CEO of 5R. Between CCR and 5R, the companies recycle an estimated 20 million pounds per year, and Paragon Green projects that it will collect and recycle more than 50 million pounds of materials in 2010.

McFarland is a visionary entrepreneur in IT asset recovery and the electronics recycling industry. She is known for being creatively passionate about diverting e-waste from curbside disposal by working to responsibly convert recoverable electronic equipment into re-marketable used products or component parts. Any equipment Paragon Green collects that does not have a resale value in the used market is safely dismantled and converted into commodities for reclaimed metals, plastic and other recyclable materials.

“With the global economic recession, IT departments are focusing on cost reduction as a leading priority in their budget planning,” McFarland said. “Reclaiming, refurbishing and remarketing IT equipment is an innovative and environmentally proactive approach for companies to offset IT budgets by converting used assets to cash.”

Paragon Green’s asset recycling program is a full circle, end-to-end market managed recycling solution that supports a zero e-waste environmental agenda.

“Paragon Green accepts all e-waste from the commercial markets, including what others consider non-value electronics, including monitors and televisions,” McFarland said. “We also do not ship unprocessed, hazardous e-scrap, such as lead-based glass found in monitors and televisions to other countries. Instead, our lead-based glass de-manufacturing solution, called glass-to-glass processing, is the only true, environmentally sound recycling process.”

In addition to e-waste, Paragon Green is a waste recycling resource for a broad range of goods including fluorescent lights, cardboard, plastic, rubber, and hazardous materials such as lead acid batteries. Paragon Green also takes an active role with schools and community governments by participating in collection events and pilot programs that encourage the community to recycle.

Paragon Green serves medium-sized companies and large corporations within the healthcare, education, government, hospitality, solid waste, e-waste and asset recovery industries, as well as school districts, government entities and solid waste agencies. It operates four plants with nine locations in six states, totaling 300,000 square feet of space, located in Michigan, Illinois, Georgia, Wisconsin and Tennessee.

“In the West, it’s about 80 to 85 percent yield. Here, because we segregate the materials, we get about 99.5 percent yield.” said Francis Cheong, Nokia’s environmental affairs manager for Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

Nokia outsources its recycling efforts in the country to local recycling service, Total Environmental Solutions-Asset Material Management (TES-AMM).

Joe Vong, TES-AMM’s general manager, explained that low labor costs allow the plant to employ people to separate the materials during what they call the “dismantling” process.

“In Europe, [the plants] have a different recycling management in which a whole phone is crushed and broken down. The recycle yield for this is close to 70 to 80 percent,” said Vong. “This is unlike what we do in Asia, where we crush the plastic and boards separately so we get about 95 to 97 percent yield.”

At the Singapore plant, mobile phones are dismantled by human agents who categorize different parts of the phones into different “streams”. Vong described the separation process as the “choke point”. He added that personnel must be very familiar with the materials they are working with and, on average, process 20 to 30 phones per hour in an 8-hour work day.

Cheong said Nokia collects roughly 1.5 to 2 tons of e-waste each month from the Southeast Asia and Pacific region from the public as well as R&D centers, but did not divulge how much of this waste is derived from mobile phones.

In a presentation, a spokesperson from the plant pointed out that its core business lies in “precious metal recovery from e-waste”. Among the metal that can be recovered are copper, aluminum, nickel, alloy, and even gold.

However, turning waste into gold is not an easy process. Alex Hee, project manager at the plant, said it takes 50,000 to 80,000 phones to extract 1kg of gold.

Nokia’s Cheong revealed that from the recovered material, the phone maker reclaims only the cobalt and lithium salts extracted from the recycled batteries, as these metals are very rare. These are then remade into new lithium-ion batteries.

Nokia this year has invested more than S$1 million (US$720,000) in social responsibility programs in the Southeast Asia and the Pacific region, most specifically in recycling and take-back initiatives, he said.

In a previous study in July 2008, Nokia noted that only 3 percent of the study’s respondentsrecycled their mobile phones. To raise awareness for mobile phone recycling, the handset manufacturer undertakes initiatives to reach out to the local communities in Asia cities like Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand.

SOURCE: ZDNETASIA.COM

By Liau Yun Qing, ZDNet

In its announcement, the company noted that in a span of just two years of its existence, its Eco Recycling subsidiary has developed great awareness about the hazards of waste electrical and electronic equipments and need for systematic handling. The change is visible, more and more corporate and individuals have started working with Ecoreco.

At the present time the company is providing service to more than 200 corporations throughout India. The Ecoreco subsidiary also has been recognized by various international agencies for its innovative approach to handling and processing electronic scrap, including being recognized by Lockheed Martin with a Gold Medal for its mobile shredding facility, which is unique in India. Also, the company was recognized for its potential in the overall international markets.

By simply redesigning packaging for its phone accessories, Sprint expects to save $2.1 million annually in packaging costs.

This represents a 35 percent reduction in packaging costs, according to a press release, and a corresponding reduction in 647 tons of waste annually.

The new packaging — which is made of recyclable PET 1, replacing PVC — is 20-40 percent smaller than the packaging it replaces.

Ink on the packaging is now soy-based, instead of petroleum-based.

Paperboard used in the packaging is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council.

For items purchased online, Sprint will ship to consumers using a new packaging air pillow that contains less resin and is biodegradable.

The new packaging will be used on the following items:

• Samsung Instinct HD Protective Carry Wallet
• Blackberry Tour Holster
• Motorola i856 Holster
• Jabra C150 Behind The Ear Wired Headset
• HTC Hero Silicone Gels
• Samsung Reclaim Clear Ice Phone Cover
• Samsung Instinct HD Gels
• Samsung Intrepid i350 Silicone Gels
• Micro-USB Vehicle Power Charger
• Palm Micro- USB VPA
• Mini USB VPA -Rim 7250/7520/7100i/Ppc6700
• Samsung VPA – M300.M510

The Green Carrier Matrix from ABI Research recently ranked Sprint/Nextel No. 2 among mobile phone companies based on the environmental impact of its network infrastructure, green network equipment, green handsets and handset recycling. AT&T was ranked No. 1.

Source: Environmental Leader

The key to the discovery lies in the way in which the algae, Cladophora, produce a unique type of cellulose with a very large surface area (approximately 80 square meters of surface area per gram of material).

By coating this algal cellulose material with a thin layer of a well-known, conductive polymer, called polypyrrole (PPy), the team has “succeeded in producing a battery that weighs almost nothing and that has set new charge-time and capacity records for polymer-cellulose-based [non-metallic] batteries,” according to Gustav Nyström, a doctoral student in nanotechnology and one of the main researchers.

LAGUNA HILLS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Full Circle Wireless Inc. (www.fullcirclewireless.com), a recycler and reseller of previously owned wireless devices and accessories dedicated to helping businesses across America operate with a more environmentally conscious mindset, today announced the official appointment of Shelton L. Basham to the position of General Manager and CEO. Basham, who previously served as Full Circle Wireless’ General Manager and Chief Operating Officer, will now oversee all day-to-day operations, marketing direction, and strategic business development for the company, which was recently recognized by Inc. magazine as the 16th fastest growing privately held environmental services firm in the nation.

As one of the original founders of Full Circle Wireless, Basham has been intimately involved in helping to make the company’s vision of helping to alert American businesses to the imperative of responsible recycling of electronic products, in particular cellular equipment and accessories, a viable reality. Now as the top executive of the company, which is based in Laguna Hills, Calif., he will play an instrumental role in further establishing Full Circle Wireless as the nation’s preeminent leader in the area of wireless product “e-waste” elimination and also helping to make innovative recycling solutions readily accessible to both small and large businesses throughout the U.S.

In an effort to reduce the dumping of used cell phones into America’s already overflowing landfills and encourage companies to adopt greener business practices, Full Circle Wireless literally buys back used cellular equipment (cell phones, Blackberrys, iPhones and aircards) from businesses and community organizations that are seeking an alternative solution for their used wireless product inventory, and then facilitates the responsible reselling or recycling of the equipment. By offering its customers what it calls “The Complete Green Cellular Solution,” Full Circle Wireless not only puts cash back into the pockets of participating businesses (a plus during this tough economy), but it also picks up and ships their unwanted wireless inventory free of charge.

As a veteran within the integrated wireless, telecommunications and media industries, Basham is well suited to serve as an evangelist for this critical issue. Prior to his current appointment as General Manager and CEO of Full Circle, and prior to serving as the company’s General Manager/COO, he served consecutively in the positions of Purchasing Agent, Purchasing Manager and then Director of Sales and Purchasing, and has helped to mold the organization’s philosophical mission and customer service culture since day one. Prior to working with Full Circle, he served as Vice President of Wireless Warehouse, and also held management and professorial positions with Mobile Ed (an interactive teaching module for science students) and Oncor Communications. Before commencing his corporate career in the wireless and telecom arenas, Basham also worked in news and entertainment radio, serving in production, editorial and on-air capacities.

“Full Circle Wireless is on the cusp of making a major impact on our nation’s environment by helping to reduce the growing levels of toxic electronic waste that is literally permeating our landfills,” said Basham. “I am looking forward to applying my background in both communications and education to help motivate a shift in the way that businesses and consumers dispose of their cellular equipment and enact a change in our green consciousness when it comes to proper handling of these used products. I believe that collectively we can make a tremendous difference and I’m pleased to be in a capacity to help achieve a transformation in public awareness regarding e-waste issues by informing Americans about the alternative options that will help ensure a healthier planet for us all.”

Helping Basham to lead the charge are two seasoned wireless industry sales, purchasing, and customer relations experts. Darrin Moeller, who has three decades of telecom sales experience, serves as Full Circle’s Director of Sales and Purchasing. He was formerly with Verizon Wireless, where he provided cellular communications solutions and managed customer relationships for large, Fortune 500 corporate clients. Moeller also worked in a senior management capacity within the financial and investment sector, serving as Vice President of Great Western Financial.

Tim Simpson serves as Full Circle’s Quality Control Manager and is responsible for overseeing the organization’s purchasing needs, inventory control and management of contracts – operations areas which are essential to maintaining the company’s client service-driven culture which is committed to making the used cellular equipment purchase and recycling process as hassle free as possible for participating businesses. Simpson also has extensive blended wireless industry and customer service and quality oversight experience, having worked in multiple capacities for Sprint PCS and IPCS Wireless.

“We are a tight, agile team devoted to the e-recycling mission, and I’m confident that together we can create a groundswell of change and redirect the way that corporate America disposes of their used wireless inventory,” added Basham. “Full Circle is committed to reaching decision makers with both a cost-saving and planet-saving message as well as helping businesses across the U.S. to think and act in a deeper shade of green