Hopefully, this weekend's electronic waste recycling event won't be the first in Detroit. As with many large cities in the U.S., Detroit, Michigan certainly has its share of unwanted electronics, from computers to laptops to printers through to televisions. The question is: What does everyone do with their unwanted electronics? Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit joined forced with the Oakland County Campus in Pontiac on Saturday to begin collecting electronic waste, also known as "e-waste". Lindsay Chalmers, Director of Business Development for Goodwill, said: "Anything related to a computer, to a PC, in other words it can be a monitor, keyboard, some ... Full Story

Environmentalists are up in arms over reports that the UK's electronic waste is being illegally shipped and dumped to West Africa. They are even more enraged because the government hasn't done anything to prevent it. The Environment Agency (EA) is the agency responsible for enforcing the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive. Part of that job includes making sure that the e-waste is recycled or disposed using environmental best practices. Recently, the international environmental group Greenpeace showed that there were UK companies dumping waste in parts of Ghana and Nigeria. According to Greenpeace's report, discarded electronics from UK councils and ... Full Story

PC Parts, Inc. is preparing to be an electronics waste recycler located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The owners of the facility have been stockpiling items for recycling, including computers, printers, copiers, and component parts. What once seemed like useless rubbish is now the new beginning for those electronics in need of a transplant. "It's the truest form of recycling," said Adam Crockett, vice president for sales and marketing of PC Parts. PC Parts has been in the business for several years and plans to take the company to the next level by de-manufacturing electronics. The company anticipates receiving a large amount of ... Full Story

Raident Technology, Inc. has introduced the creation of scholarships at Academy of Art University located in San Francisco, California. Two scholarships have already been awarded to two Master students in the sculpture department. The recipients, Mike E. Feeney and Lindsey K. Eisentraut will devote the coming year creating art out of electronic waste. The scholarships are designed to offset the costs associated with tuition and art supplies. Charlene Módena, the Graduate Director, School of Fine Art Sculpture, said: "I want to give my deepest thanks to Raident Technology for extending this amazing and generous opportunity to Graduate ... Full Story

Intel Oregon has arranged an electronics recycling event to be held Saturday, September 13 from 10 A.M. to 2 P.M. at Intel's Jones Farm campus in Hillsboro, Oregon. Items that will be accepted at the drive include: laptops, desktop computers, keyboards, mice, monitors, TVs, phones, DVD players, and other electronic items. Also present at the event will be a mobile shredding service equipped to safely dispose of confidential documents. Many items will be accepted for recycling at no charge. There will be a $5 fee per computer monitor and TV up to 27 inches. Monitors and televisions measuring more than 27 ... Full Story

San Marcos Texas is just one of the many locations in which the Goodwill Reconnect program is in effect. The program, in conjunction with Dell, accepts and refurbishes used computers for resale in its retail stores. All Dell items being donated for use at Goodwill can be picked up free of charge. Other brands can be recycled for free with a new Dell product purchase or for a small handling fee. Goodwill is a not-for-profit organisation which provides jobs and services for people with developmental disabilities. The program operates in all fifty states and has seen great success with the ... Full Story

Greenpeace is trying to reduce the number of old computers being tossed by the roadside but is restricted by the lack of India's laws on electronic waste. Discarded computers are often seen on the street where they will be picked apart by an unorganized group of people searching for valuable components. Whatever is left over after the scavenging simply gets left behind or ends up in a dump or landfill. E-waste is highly toxic to the environment, including the soil and groundwater but that is not Greenpeace's only issue. Young children are being used to take apart the computers thereby ... Full Story

They say that everything is bigger in better in Texas. Hopefully, the upcoming electronics recycling day will live up to the slogan. LaCenterra has joined forces with local recycling firm, AERC, and the Katy Area Chamber of Commerce to host a free electronic recycling day on Saturday, September 13. The event, which will be run starting at 9 A.M., will be held at LaCenterra on Cinco Ranch Boulevard at Grand Parkway. The amount of electronics recycled, measured in pounds, will determine the amount of the donation that will be made to The Arc of Katy, a not-for-profit organisation committed to enriching ... Full Story

Charitable organisations can often benefit from donations of computer equipment and other items needed to keep their doors open. On Tuesday, 9 September, the Electronic Recycling Association of Calgary, Canada will join forces with MP Deepak Obhrai to donate vital computer equipment to two separate local charities in the Calgary region:  The Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada and The Rainbow Society of Alberta. The donation event will take place at the ERA offices. The equipment to be donated to the charities has been collected through various companies in the area. The ERA is responsible for collecting the equipment, ensuring that it ... Full Story

The council members in Jamestown, Rhode Island are thrilled with their recycling programmes. At the end of August, Councilman William Kelly told his fellow council members that the town had received a check for $24,800 from the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation. Jamestown Administrator Bruce Keiser and Department of Public Works Director Steve Goslee were among officials from other communities that congregated at the RIRRC offices in Johnston to pick up their check. The checks were distributed by Governor Carcieri who encouraged communities to improve their recycling efforts. "If these materials had not been recycled, they would have more then likely ... Full Story

Office Depot, the major office supplies retailer, opened its first "green" store this summer. Located in Austin, Texas, the store was purposefully designed to consumer less water and energy during its daily operations. It also has an increased number of recycling programmes and promises to leave a much smaller footprint than stores of a similar nature. "We took a series of innovative green design elements used in Office Depot store locations across the country and brought them together in our new store prototype," said Ed Costa, Office Depot's construction VP. "Through the construction phase of this prototype design we used a ... Full Story

E-Donor, on behalf of ad agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners, recently produced a film that shows the beauty and wonder of recycling. There is no script for the film, simply a montage of an abandoned laptop being magically converted into a tricycle for a child. People who have viewed the film have called it "emotional". The message is, of course, how old technology can be reincarnated into something entirely new and perhaps something that has no relationship at all to the original product. Hence, the tricycle. The opening of the film shows a dusty and clutter filled garage. Suddenly, the viewer ... Full Story