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, Sam’s 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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What’s 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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