Illinois appears likely to become the next U.S. state to implement a statewide comprehensive take-back program for the recovery of used consumer electronics. An Illinois General Assembly informed E-Scrap News that manufacturer-responsibility measure Senate Bill 2313 was to be pushed back to the assembly's November veto session. The delay was ...

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (Portland) has extended the deadline for both manufacturers to submit their final recycling program intent and to submit recycling plans from today, July 1st, to July 11th at 5:00 p.m. The DEQ requests that if a manufacturer does wish to change its recycling choice, ...

 With his recent approval of Senate Bill 1631, Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry added the Sooner State to the growing list of U.S. states recognizing the proper recovery of unwanted electronics.

 Environmental watchdog group Greenpeace (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) released a new report targeting consumer electronics manufacturers, this time focusing on the world's three main video game console companies.

According to an article by Megan Hansen that appeared in the May 2nd edition of the Nisqually Valley News, officials from a local school board had to clean up 30 discarded district computers and other electronic equipment that was illegally dumped on Weyerhaeuser property by someone who had purchased them ...

According to a number of reports linked below, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott (pictured) has fined yet another company for discarding personal information without destroying it first, thus violating the state’s destruction requirement.

 According to a report by Denver Channel 7 News on April 28th, two Colorado mortgage companies are the latest to contribute to the epidemic of sensitive records being put at risk by defunct lenders across the US. Like other incidents, it starts with the sensitive records being abandoned by the ...

The NAID Board of Directors has authorized the allocation of funds for NAID to join the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC). The annual membership costs $2,000 and will put NAID in a position to educate and influence the future develop of security standards and increase their awareness of ...

Picture a stack of used PCs packed with corporate data sitting unattended on a shipping company loading dock. Imagine what happens to your company's stock price when the Environmental Protection Agency tracks the serial numbers of lead-filled monitors from an illegal landfill back to you. Think about a villager in ...

The Old Dominion State appears ready to become the next U.S. state to implement a manufacturer-responsibility system for the recovery of used electronics. One measure already has been signed by Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, while another waits in the wings.

"Unfortunately, computer manufacturers continue to use hazardous materials in their products. Computers are manufactured cheaply in poor countries, due to less stringent environmental standards and loose occupational regulations. Consumers in weathier countries enjoy the benign phase of the IT life-cycle. At the end of its life, computer hardware must be ...

A New Jersey advanced recovery fee (ARF) measure, originally introduced in 2006, has been approved by a Senate Appropriations Committee.

Wisconsin Senator Mark Miller intends to introduce legislation this week to establish a statewide electronics recovery system similar to the program passed earlier this year in Minnesota.

A settlement in a decade-long battle between Texas Disposal Systems (Austin, Texas), Zenith Electronics Corp. (Lincolnshire, Illinois) and the Penske Truck Leasing Co. (Reading, Pennsylvania) has been reached. The multimillion dollar legal dispute recently ended with a district court decision in Travis County, Texas, ordering Penske to dispose of 99 ...

The Indian state of Maharashtra is moving forward on a law covering the disposal of e-scrap in the state. The Maharashtra Department of Environment (Mumbai) is preparing a draft bill with the help of other local governmental agencies.

Sixty tons of e-scrap was collected during a one-day event in San Jose, Costa Rica, as e-scrap recovery made its way to Latin America. The drive was sponsored by the Technical Committee on Management of E-waste, a coalition of government business and academic leaders, and was supported by numerous OEMs ...

Computer-maker Fujitsu (Tokyo) has announced a partnership with e-scrap recycling company TES-AMM Singapore and launched a new collection and recycling venture. The new program is open to corporate clients, primarily in Asia, that have 20 or more units of obsolete or redundant Fujitsu equipment.

Government officials in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Nova Scotia have taken steps toward implementing e-scrap recycling programs.

Responding to a challenge from a popular Quebec television program, La Vie en Vert (The Green Life), a public-private coalition announced that it will take the test to come up with a way to divert over 22,000 tons of e-scrap annually from the province.

One of the bodies of water in the Land of 10,000 Lakes was a dumping ground for an unscrupulous e-scrap processor, according to an ongoing criminal case in Minnesota.

Sensitive patient information was found on an unwiped hard drive as part of a multinational study of 350 discarded hard drives, some purchased online.

The China Communications Standards Association (Beijing) has established a taskforce to study standards for recycling e-scrap and for testing consumer electronics for harmful chemicals. The move is in response to the European Union's Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directives. 

Computer manufacturer Dell (Round Rock, Texas) announced yesterday that it will be carbon-neutral by 2008, beating its previous target by a year.

Computer giant Hewlett-Packard (Palo Alto, California) is financing a project that will investigate how to improve current disposal systems for electronic scrap generated by African companies, as well as materials illegally imported from the West.

Dead computers aren't always headed to the junk heap. Creative users reuse nonfunctional computer hardware in a variety of ways.

A bipartisan measure introduced this week looks to boost recycling rates by providing tax incentives to subsidize the purchase of recycling equipment.

Enlist the support of employees in your mission to properly dispose of computer waste. Article by Jonathan Zigman, senior vice president with CSI Leasing.

As long as our national and local governments provide little more than vague direction regarding electronics disposal, the best defense lies with the user to ensure the right handling. Article by Jonathan Zigman, senior vice president with CSI Leasing.