British companies dump e-waste in Ghana, Nigeria

It's not only U.S. companies dumping e-waste in China, this report looks at waste from British companies. " Investigations conducted by The Times of London into the Agbogbloshie dumping site made an emphatic...

Canadian Students Buy Sensitive US Defense Info for $40 in Ghana

A group of Canadian journalism graduate students from the University of British Columbia (UBC) were able to buy sensitive US defense information for $40CAN from a company that deals in discarded North American...

First Carbon Neutral Mobile Phone

Motorola has teamed up with Carbonfund.org to battle electronic product waste by its early 2009 release of the world's first climate change aware cellphone, the Renew MOTO W233. This environmentally designed...

First CarbonFree® Mobile Phone

Motorola has teamed up with Carbonfund.org to battle electronic product waste by its early 2009 release of the world's first climate change aware cellphone, the Renew MOTO W233. This environmentally designed...

China's E-Waste Nightmare Worsening

Many of us have been morally outraged at China's industry during the past months for using lead paint and other contaminants on our children's toys.  We've pointed indignant fingers at the country's heavy pollution and judged the government to be uncaring and ineffective...

Why Import of E-waste In Developing Countries?

Millions of pounds of electronic waste (E-Waste) from obsolete computers and TVs are being generated in the U.S. each year and huge amounts an estimated 50% to 80% collected for recycling are being exported.For...

Rebooting Canada's Approach to E-waste

"Rebooting Canada's Approach to E-waste"A bright idea to shrink the digital divide, and Third World landfills. By Reanna AlderTooth and Dagger David Repa and Ifny Lachance, along with the rest of the folks at Free Geek Vancouver, want to give you a free...

Chinese company tops "Green Ranking" of electronics industry

Today Greenpeace launched the third edition of his famous "Guide to electronics".The latest Greenpeace ranking of electronic manufacturers' recycling and toxic content policies has a couple of surprises: a...

British Columbia gets a head start on imprending E-Waste problem

B.C. Government Takes on E-Waste By Luke T. Johnson 12.2.2005  It seems like computers become obsolete before they even get out of the box, so it is little wonder that electronic waste is one of the major new challenges in waste management.   A report...

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