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["Eric Lombardi" <eric@no.address>]

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By Pete Fehrenbach

 

Woodwork squeaks and out come the geeks: All of a sudden, e-waste news is
busting out all over.

 

Wal-Mart, the modest chain of ma-and-pa five-and-dimes based in Arkansas, is
about to start selling a computer it developed in conjunction with Toshiba. 

http://www.wastenews.com/headlines2.html?id=1140630514 It´s a laptop that
complies with Europe´s stringent hazardous-substance directive. And Wal-Mart
will be selling it at all of its U.S. stores. Despite being under no 

obligation to do so.

 

 The U.S. Postal Service has set 

its sights on creating a national recycling program for cell 

phones and computer printer cartridges and is looking for 

partners to do it with. 

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,124769,00.asp

 

 

 The National Solid Wastes Management Association has 

revised its e-waste recycling policy and is now urging 

manufacturers to take the lead. 

http://www.wastenews.com/headlines2.html?id=1140636090

 

 

 In San Francisco, the city´s board of supervisors last 

week officially called on the state of California to require 

companies whose products contain toxic substances to foot 

the bill for the disposal of those goods. 

http://www.sfexaminer.com/articles/2006/02/20/news/20060220_ne02_ewaste.txt

 

 

 And a movement is afoot to develop a national 

certification system for e-waste recyclers. (But you´ll have 

to wait to read Waste News reporter Joe Truini´s story in 

next week´s print edition for the lowdown on that.)

 

 

Did someone put something in the water? Or maybe there´s a 

new virus humming through the wires? Is this not a 

remarkable convergence of activity?

 

 Two things I know 

(I think): All of these moves bode well for the environment. 

And none of them will come cheap.

 

 But bottom line, 

it´s about time. This is medicine we need to take. For all 

we know, the current electronics boom will go on forever. So 

we do have to start accounting for all of the real costs 

we´re imposing on ourselves and the environment via our 

mania for gadgets.

 

 E-mail Waste News assistant 

managing editor Pete Fehrenbach at pfehrenbach@no.address 

Past installments of this column are collected in the Inbox 

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