Carnegie Mellon University “Disposition and End-of-Life Options for Personal Computers” White Paper
www.ce.cmu.edu/
This study provides an in-depth look at management and treatment of obsolete PCs. The study compares current statistics with the results of a 1991 study that predicted that nearly 150 million PCs would be sent to landfills by 2005.
Info-Tech - Best Practices for E-waste Management
This white paper reviews ways to get rid of old electronic equipment while helping the environment.
Basel Action Network (BAN)
http://www.ban.org/
BAN is the world's only organization focused on confronting the global environmental injustice and economic inefficiency of toxic trade (toxic wastes, products and technologies) and its devastating impacts. Working at the nexus of human rights and environment, we confront the issues of environmental justice at a macro level, preventing disproportionate and unsustainable dumping of the world's toxic waste and pollution on our global village's poorest residents. At the same time we actively promote the sustainable and just solutions to our consumption and waste crises -- banning waste trade, while promoting green, toxic free and democratic design of consumer products.
e-Stewards program - Find a responsible recycler
U.S. EPA – E-Cycling
www.epa.gov/
An overview of e-cycling provided by the US Environmental Protection Agency. This site offers:
Computer Hope.com - "Computer disposal, donation, and recycle information"
www.computerhope.com/disposal.htm
Offers some great suggestions and resources for properly disposing your computer equipment and batteries as well as donation information for working computers and electronics.
The Futures Channel - Recycling Electronic Waste
http://www.thefutureschannel.com/dockets/hands-on_math/recycling_computers/
This 5 minute movie takes you inside the largest electronics recycling facility in California to see what happens to electronics that are disposed of properly i.e. at a local collection center instead of the dumpster. It's like a factory in reverse--TVs, computers and cell phones go in, plastics, metals and glass come out!
Watch the movie and download the classroom activity: http://www.thefutureschannel.com/dockets/hands-on_math/recycling_computers/
Rethink - an eBay Initiated Industry Association
http://pages.ebay.com/rethink/
The Rethink Initiative brings together industry, government and environmental organizations to offer a fresh perspective and new answers to the challenge of e-waste. On this site you can find information, tools and solutions that make it easy – and even profitable – to find new users for idle computers and electronics, and responsibly recycle unwanted products. Also listed are suggested recyclers and manufacturers with recycling programs.
The National Center for Electronics Recycling (NCER)
www.ncerwv.org/public/
NCER is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization formed in 2005 that is dedicated to the development and enhancement of a national infrastructure for the recycling of used electronics in the U.S. through:
The NCER website contains basics, laws, projects, conferences, resources, news, publications presentations and eNewsletters.