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WCRC Newsletters
WCRC
Fall 2008 Newsletter
Medicine Return Pilot Program article, Climate
Change, Washington's lead in Producer Responsibility,
the need for a manufacturer based fluorescent lamp recycling program, the Take
It Back electronics recycling network, and a B.C. product stewardship
tour.
WCRC
Fall 2004 Newsletter
Articles on Take It Back Networks, E-Waste Recommendations, why WCRC is
talking about producer responsibility, phasing out flame retardants, and commercial
electronic collection programs.
WCRC
Fall 2003 Newsletter
Articles on prison and computer recycling, disposable DVDs, brominated flame
retardants (PBDEs) in mothers' breast, updates on producer responsibility in
Washington State, and other news.
WCRC
Spring 2003 Newsletter
Updates on producer responsibility legislation, the Computer TakeBack
Campaign, the "Electronic Recycler's Pledge of True Stewardship",
recycling in Seattle, and more!
WCRC Event Participation
RE Store's 2nd
Recycled Art Show WCRC, Total Reclaim and others helped sponsor RE
Store's (1440 NW 52nd St in Ballard) recycled art show in September 2003. The
show was a terrific success....Artists and consumers: think trash! Create and
buy recycled art! (Photo of Bird House by Elinor Paulus, Winner
in Youth Category).
WCRC received a Leadership in Product Stewardship Award at the 2003 Northwest
Hazardous Waste Conference for Household and Small Business Programs.
WCRC participated in the the Extended Producer Responsibility skillshare
meeting in Buffalo, NY, July 2003. See EPA
Working Group.
Hard
Drive Across the West Campaign for the multi-city collection of
discarded toxic Dell Computer gear for delivery to Dell's July 17, 2003
shareholder meeting in Austin Texas begins in Seattle.
For more information on the Hard Drive go to:
] Computer
TakeBack Campaign News and Resources
] PC
Recycling Campaign Pressures Dell July
15, 2003 by Vicki Kio, Denver Post, Vicki Kio.
] A
Dell of a Problem: Old Computers Heading for Mogul's Mansion July
17, 2003, San Francisco Examiner, Ethan Fletcher.
Brominated Flame Retardarts (BFRs)
Polybrominated
Dipheynl Ethers (PBDEs) in U.S. Mother's Milk November 2003,
Environmental Health Perspectives, Arnold Schecter et al. (PDF).
High
Level of PBDEs Found in Breast Milk September 23, 2003, Seattle
P-I, Robert McClure.
California
Legislature Passes Bill Banning PBDEs August 1, 2003, Brayton-Purcell
(Laywers) website.
Tainted Catch
July 2003, Environmental Working Group, Sonia Lunder and Renee Sharp (PDF).
(Report on Environmental Working Group website www.ewg.org.)
Polybrominated
Dipheynl Ethers in Material and Fetal Blood Samples July 2003, Environmental
Health Perspectives, Anita Mazdai et al. (PDF).
Assembly
OKs Flame-Retardant Ban May 28, 2003, Sacramento Bee, Jim
Sanders.
PBCs
All Over Again May 22, 2003, The American Prospect Online,
Natasha Hunter.
California
AB 302 (relating to BFRs). February 6, 2003.
Burned by Flame
Retardants? October 13, 2001. Science News Online, Charlotte
Schubert.
Prison Labor and Computer Recycling
Recycling Churns Jobs
July 14, 2003, Austin Business Journal, Stacey Higginbotham.
Dell Plans to Quit Recycling Contract: Operations Employing Prisoners was
Accused of Mishandling Waste. July 3, 2003, The Dallas Morning News,
Crayton Harrison.
Corporate
Strategies for Electronics Recycling: A Tale of Two Systems June 25,
2003, A Publication of Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition and the Computer
TakeBack Campaign, Sheila Davis and Ted Smith (PDF).
Dell
Computers; Recycling Efforts Raise Labor Concerns May 16, 2003,
Erika McDonald (aired on KPFT in Houston and covered in Citizens'
Environmental Coalition newsletter). (Also reposted in Houston
Independent Media Center, May 19, 2003.)
Electronics
Recyclers Pledge: "No Exports, No Dumping, No Prisons"
February 25, 2003, GreenBiz.com.
National Electronic Product Stewardship Initiative (NEPSI)
BAN Urges States to Action on E-waste
June 16, 2003, Recycling
Today.
NEPSI Moves Forward (Somewhat)
June 16, 2003, Resource Recycling
E-Scrap Electronic Newsletter.
California E-Waste Legislation
Californians Against Waste (CAW Website)
Press
regarding Senator Sher's E-Waste Measure (Senate Bill 20).
Tech Firms Object to California E-Waste
Bill July 14, 2003, Silicon
Valley/San Jose Business Journal, Timothy Roberts.
Bid to Recycle TVs and E-Waste
Gains July 6, 2003, Los Angeles Times, Miguel Bustillo.
European E-Waste Regulations
European Union (EU)
Electrical and Electronics Products Directives (Directive on Waste
Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and Directive on the Restriction of
the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment
(RoHS)). July 2003, INFORM, by Bette
Fishbein.
The WEEE and RoHS Directives:
Highlights and Analysis July 2003, INFORM, by
Bette Fishbein.
Informative
Summary Articles 
Beyond
Waste: The Future of Waste Spring 2003, Enough! Helen
Spiegelman.
Just Say No to E-Waste:
Background Document on Hazards and Waste from Computer A Silicon Valley
Toxics Coalition / Clean Computer Campaign publication.
The Gallon Environment
Letter December 2002, from the Canadian Institute for Business and the
Environment.
E-Waste Backgrounder
November 2002, Environmental Media Services.
