Electronics TakeBack Coalition

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Web Name: Electronics TakeBack Coalition

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description:The Electronics TakeBack Coalition (ETBC) promotes green design and responsible recycling in the electronics industry. Our goal is to protect the health and well being of electronics users, workers, and the communities where electronics are produced and discarded by requiring consumer electronics manufacturers and brand owners to take full responsibility for the life cycle of ...
Home | Contact Us | For the Media E-Waste Problem OverviewFacts and FiguresHow to recycle electronicsLegislative toolkitResources for KidsTools for purchasersWhat Were Reading Green design would make the world better, but greenwashing just pretends to.
Learn More >>It’s better to prevent toxic waste than to have to figure out how to keep it from hurting us later. Learn More >>In the U.S. we throw away over 3 million tons of e-waste every year. Only 15% is recycled.
Learn More >>Dumping our e-waste in developing countries is not “recycling.” Learn More >> Watch the Story of Electronics

The Story of Electronics video takes on the electronics industry’s “design for the dump” mentality and champions product take back to spur companies to make less toxic, more easily recyclable and longer lasting products.

Take Action Tell the retailers to help us recycle electronics

Tell retailers like Walmart, Sams Club, Costco, Amazon, Sears to help us recycle our electronics, like Best Buy and Staples do.

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News Amazon, Best Buy and the free rider problem

This means, to put it bluntly, that Best Buy is collecting trash generated by Amazon, Walmart and other competitors.

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Whats Going On with Electronic Waste?

“Standards and testing on materials should be done before these products hit the market,” said Kyle. “The government should not be relying on the people working for the recyclers and waste management to act as their canary in the mine shaft.”

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Blog E-waste from Dell/Goodwill “Reconnect Program” was exported, despite Dell’s no-export policy

If this is happening to Dell, the company with the highest standards and toughest audits, should we assume that other manufacturer takeback programs’ e-waste is also being exported to developing countries, even if they have a policy forbidding it?

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Dash Button or e-Trash Button?

Setting aside our bewilderment about why anyone would be willing to glue these fat plastic lozenges bearing corporate logos around the house, we can’t help but notice that these devices seem more like future e-waste than must-have devices.

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The Electronics TakeBack Coalition (ETBC) promotes green design and responsible recycling in the electronics industry. Our goal is to protect the health and well being of electronics users, workers, and the communities where electronics are produced and discarded by requiring consumer electronics manufacturers and brand owners to take full responsibility for the life cycle of ...

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