Comments on: Consumer awareness crucial in solving e-waste problems http://www.reportage-enviro.com/2010/05/consumer-awareness-crucial-in-solving-e-waste-problems/ Environmental news and features Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Murray http://www.reportage-enviro.com/2010/05/consumer-awareness-crucial-in-solving-e-waste-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-4094 Murray Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:42:13 +0000 http://www.reportage-enviro.com/?p=2562#comment-4094 We have developed an innovative approach to e-waste that tackles three problems at once. Re-Use of old PCs and UBUNTU to empower the less fortunate - TEDxCreativeCoast - Murray Wilson - eWaste and the Social Landfill http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk5Rngk8lAM We have developed an innovative approach to e-waste that tackles three problems at once. Re-Use of old PCs and UBUNTU to empower the less fortunate – TEDxCreativeCoast – Murray Wilson – eWaste and the Social Landfill http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk5Rngk8lAM

]]> By: Mike Anane http://www.reportage-enviro.com/2010/05/consumer-awareness-crucial-in-solving-e-waste-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-3973 Mike Anane Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:48:12 +0000 http://www.reportage-enviro.com/?p=2562#comment-3973 Exporting electronic waste illegally to poor countries has become a vast and growing international business, as companies in the industrialised countries try to minimize the costs of having to properly dispose or recycle them responsibly at home. It is urgent that the industrialized countries put in place the necessary checks and balances or systems to curb the increasing illicit shipments of electronic waste from their countries and their subsequent dumping in Ghana and other countries lest developing countries continue to wallow in environmental decline, ill-health and increasing poverty. Everyone has the right to live in a world free from toxic pollution and environmental degradation. For further information on the e-waste situation in Ghana please see these links: http://www.facebook.com/pages/E-Waste-Watch-Ghana/128902477153239?created http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=544218491&ref=ts#!/profile.php?id=544218491 Exporting electronic waste illegally to poor countries has become a vast and growing international business, as companies in the industrialised countries try to minimize the costs of having to properly dispose or recycle them responsibly at home.

It is urgent that the industrialized countries put in place the necessary checks and balances or systems to curb the increasing illicit shipments of electronic waste from their countries and their subsequent dumping in Ghana and other countries lest developing countries continue to wallow in environmental decline, ill-health and increasing poverty.

Everyone has the right to live in a world free from toxic pollution and environmental degradation. For further information on the e-waste situation in Ghana please see these links:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/E-Waste-Watch-Ghana/128902477153239?created

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=544218491&ref=ts#!/profile.php?id=544218491

]]> By: Mike Anane http://www.reportage-enviro.com/2010/05/consumer-awareness-crucial-in-solving-e-waste-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-4394 Mike Anane Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:48:00 +0000 http://www.reportage-enviro.com/?p=2562#comment-4394 Exporting electronic waste illegally to poor countries has become a vast and growing international business, as companies in the industrialised countries try to minimize the costs of having to properly dispose or recycle them responsibly at home. It is urgent that the industrialized countries put in place the necessary checks and balances or systems to curb the increasing illicit shipments of electronic waste from their countries and their subsequent dumping in Ghana and other countries lest developing countries continue to wallow in environmental decline, ill-health and increasing poverty. Everyone has the right to live in a world free from toxic pollution and environmental degradation. For further information on the e-waste situation in Ghana please see these links: http://www.facebook.com/pages/E-Waste-Watch-Ghana/128902477153239?created http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=544218491&ref=ts#!/profile.php?id=544218491 Exporting electronic waste illegally to poor countries has become a vast and growing international business, as companies in the industrialised countries try to minimize the costs of having to properly dispose or recycle them responsibly at home.

It is urgent that the industrialized countries put in place the necessary checks and balances or systems to curb the increasing illicit shipments of electronic waste from their countries and their subsequent dumping in Ghana and other countries lest developing countries continue to wallow in environmental decline, ill-health and increasing poverty.

Everyone has the right to live in a world free from toxic pollution and environmental degradation. For further information on the e-waste situation in Ghana please see these links:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/E-Waste-Watch-Ghana/128902477153239?created

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=544218491&ref=ts#!/profile.php?id=544218491

]]> By: Kirsten Brogaard http://www.reportage-enviro.com/2010/05/consumer-awareness-crucial-in-solving-e-waste-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-2679 Kirsten Brogaard Thu, 27 May 2010 03:14:57 +0000 http://www.reportage-enviro.com/?p=2562#comment-2679 Hi Ross Thank you for your comment. There are different places you can go and get your e-waste recycled. As it is now it depends a lot on where you live and what kind of waste you have. In Victoria for instance you can take your computer to Byteback’s transfer stations for free, but other places and with other kinds of electronic waste it will cost you to recycle your e-waste. A quick google search might help you out for your specific waste and location, otherwise Sims Recycling Solutions and 1800ewaste are some of the biggest recyclers operating in Australia. Hope this can help you get rid of our stockpile without it going into landfill. Hi Ross

Thank you for your comment. There are different places you can go and get your e-waste recycled. As it is now it depends a lot on where you live and what kind of waste you have. In Victoria for instance you can take your computer to Byteback’s transfer stations for free, but other places and with other kinds of electronic waste it will cost you to recycle your e-waste. A quick google search might help you out for your specific waste and location, otherwise Sims Recycling Solutions and 1800ewaste are some of the biggest recyclers operating in Australia.

Hope this can help you get rid of our stockpile without it going into landfill.

]]> By: Kirsten Brogaard http://www.reportage-enviro.com/2010/05/consumer-awareness-crucial-in-solving-e-waste-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-4393 Kirsten Brogaard Thu, 27 May 2010 03:14:00 +0000 http://www.reportage-enviro.com/?p=2562#comment-4393 Hi Ross Thank you for your comment. There are different places you can go and get your e-waste recycled. As it is now it depends a lot on where you live and what kind of waste you have. In Victoria for instance you can take your computer to Byteback’s transfer stations for free, but other places and with other kinds of electronic waste it will cost you to recycle your e-waste. A quick google search might help you out for your specific waste and location, otherwise Sims Recycling Solutions and 1800ewaste are some of the biggest recyclers operating in Australia. Hope this can help you get rid of our stockpile without it going into landfill. Hi Ross

Thank you for your comment. There are different places you can go and get your e-waste recycled. As it is now it depends a lot on where you live and what kind of waste you have. In Victoria for instance you can take your computer to Byteback’s transfer stations for free, but other places and with other kinds of electronic waste it will cost you to recycle your e-waste. A quick google search might help you out for your specific waste and location, otherwise Sims Recycling Solutions and 1800ewaste are some of the biggest recyclers operating in Australia.

Hope this can help you get rid of our stockpile without it going into landfill.

]]> By: Ross http://www.reportage-enviro.com/2010/05/consumer-awareness-crucial-in-solving-e-waste-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-2668 Ross Wed, 26 May 2010 06:36:08 +0000 http://www.reportage-enviro.com/?p=2562#comment-2668 Nice story about a current problem, but I wish the story included an answer to what we can do with our e-waste now. I currently have it stockpiled at home waiting to find out what to do with it. Nice story about a current problem, but I wish the story included an answer to what we can do with our e-waste now. I currently have it stockpiled at home waiting to find out what to do with it.

]]> By: Ross http://www.reportage-enviro.com/2010/05/consumer-awareness-crucial-in-solving-e-waste-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-4392 Ross Wed, 26 May 2010 06:36:00 +0000 http://www.reportage-enviro.com/?p=2562#comment-4392 Nice story about a current problem, but I wish the story included an answer to what we can do with our e-waste now. I currently have it stockpiled at home waiting to find out what to do with it. Nice story about a current problem, but I wish the story included an answer to what we can do with our e-waste now. I currently have it stockpiled at home waiting to find out what to do with it.

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