Take Action
Tell Congress to Stop Global E-Waste Dumping
Help stop U.S. “recyclers” from dumping our e-waste in developing countries. Tell Congress support the Responsible Electronics Recycling Act of 2011, to make it illegal to send toxic e-waste from the U.S. to developing nations around the globe.
Click here to send a message to your Representative in Congress.
Learn more about this problem here.
Tell the Obama Administration that the federal government should lead by example on e-waste.
The federal government’s Interagency Task Force on Electronics Stewardship issued a new report on what the Obama Administration is going to do to manage the government’s own used electronic products. But the Administration failed to show that it can lead by example on the biggest problem with e-waste: the export of e-waste to developing nations.
Tell Acer and Lenovo that you want genuine green computers
Computer companies think customers don’t care about and won’t buy green electronics. We need to let the electronics companies know that we want them to give us better, greener options for what to buy.
Please click here to tell industry giants Acer (#2 seller globally) and Lenovo (#4 seller globally) to redesign their products to make them safe, make them last, and take them back for responsible recycling.
Tell TV maker FUNAI to Take Back Their Old TVs
FUNAI is the 5th largest TV seller in the U.S. You may know them better by the brands they make – Philips, Sylvania, Magnavox and Emerson. Despite their growing market share (plus the huge number of old Philips TVs out there), Funai has no program to take back and recycle our old TVs. For the third year in a row, Funai has earned an F on our Company Recycling Report Card, while the leading companies – Samsung, LG, Sony, Panasonic, Sharp, Toshiba, Vizio, Mitsubishi – all have active takeback programs.
Click here to let the new CEO of Funai that they should launch a takeback program to recycle their old TVs.
