Eco-Update: New e-waste study
A new study on e-waste is out, and all you techies can relax about your gadgets getting a bad rap -- it's good news!
Pike Research conducted the study and reports that they “expect to see a leveling out of the amount of e-waste heading to landfills by 2015.”
This is in large part due to the measures the European Union has taken to regulate e-waste, so America needs to get with it and maybe we’ll even see an actual decrease in e-waste by 2015.
The hope is also that by then companies will have figured out how to use the inside of the old tech gizmos to make new ones, something they’re not doing yet.
To give you an idea of just how much e-waste is floating around out there: Between May and December of 2007, Staples recycled 2 million pounds of e-waste. Between 2006 and 2008 Dell recycled 255 million pounds of its computer products. In 2007 Apple collected around 21 million pounds of e-waste.
And that’s just the tip of the technological iceberg. So do your part to help get America on track and recycling our e-waste. Find out how you can decrease e-waste here.
Wondering if the first family knows how to recycle their old computers and cell phones now that they’ve upgraded at the White House? Tell the Obamas how to recycle.
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