The California Integrated Waste Management Board on Monday honored more than 250 businesses and nonprofit organizations for efforts to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills. Winners in the state’s Waste Reduction Awards Program ranged from tech giants Hewlett-Packard Co, Intel Corp and NEC...

SINGAPORE–The raw material recovery rate for Nokia, is higher in Asia than in Europe due to low labor costs that allow workers to be employed to separate materials before the recycling process, said a Nokia spokesperson. “In the West, it’s about 80 to 85 percent yield. Here, because...

Sheila Davis is the Executive Director of Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC) based in Northern California. Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition is a diverse organization engaged in research, advocacy and grassroots organizing to promote human health and environmental justice in response to the rapid...

Without recycling facilities that can handle the loads of e-waste that need to be processed, Priti Mahesh, senior programme officer with New Delhi-based Toxic Link, says that 97% of the waste gets recycled in hazardous conditions, where workers are exposed to toxins like barium, cadmium, copper and...

Step by step, e-waste legislation is introduced at different paces in countries like China, Malaysia and Thailand. Calls are heard for increased global harmonisation of laws to tackle the problem. Developing nations are expected to triple their output of e-waste by 2010. The effect of booming economies...