The E-Waste Problem and Our Work For Solutions
- The Problem With Electronics:
- Quickly Obsolete
- Hard to Recycle
- Discards Badly Managed
- Our Work For Solutions:
- Producer Takeback
- Green Design
- Responsible Recycling
- Legislation and Policy
TV Zombies Back from The Dead
The switch to Digital TV will send 10's of millions of old TVs to an early grave. Watch what happens when the undead TV zombies come back from the landfill to get their revenge!
Producer Responsibility For Electronic Waste
You make it, you take it back
The Electronics TakeBack Coalition believes the electronics companies should take responsibility for their products throughout their lifecycle, providing “cradle to cradle” management which includes taking back and recycling their products. This concept of Producer Responsibility (sometimes called Extended Producer Responsibility) is usually achieved through legislation, although some companies do it voluntarily.
More information about extended producer responsibility
TV Zombies converged at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
ETBC Pressure To Take It Back, Make It Green, Recycle Responsibly
While we support legislation that requires electronics manufacturers and brand owners to take responsibility for their products, we also pressure the computer and television companies directly to establish strong takeback programs with responsible recycling, and to design cleaner products - ones that both use safer, less toxic materials, and which are designed to last longer, and to be easier and cheaper to recycle.
In November 2007 we launched our Take Back My TV campaign, to encouage the TV companies to offer free takeback and recycling programs before the digital conversion deadline (now June 12, 2009).
Visit our TV campaign website for more information on the TV zombies.
