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					<title>Malaysia clamps down on toxic trade with total e-waste import ban</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/malaysia-clamps-down-on-toxic-trade-with-total-e-waste-import-ban/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Jul 2026 20:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ashley Yeong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Malaysia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Business, E-waste, Environment, Environmental Law, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, International Trade, Law, Law Enforcement, Pollution, Trade, and Waste]]>
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							<![CDATA[KLANG, Malaysia — On the morning of July 7, 2026, a shipping container declared to contain tin ore caught fire shortly after offloading at Port Klang, Malaysia. After firefighters doused the flames, they pried open the steel doors and found no industrial metals — only a cargo packed full of scorched electrical and electronic waste, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[KLANG, Malaysia — On the morning of July 7, 2026, a shipping container declared to contain tin ore caught fire shortly after offloading at Port Klang, Malaysia. After firefighters doused the flames, they pried open the steel doors and found no industrial metals — only a cargo packed full of scorched electrical and electronic waste, or e-waste. Investigators and NGOs have long raised concerns about containers with falsely declared documents regularly slipping into Malaysia’s illegal recycling yards. To slip past customs, smugglers often falsify paperwork, declaring hazardous waste as legitimate raw materials. However, this particular shipment met with a strict new rule: an absolute ban on e-waste imports that took full effect on April 1, 2026, under Malaysia’s new Customs Order. But enforcing this rule means combing through millions of containers a year, playing a game of whack-a-mole against a black market that disguises itself as honest green businesses. Nik Ezanee Mohd Faisal, the chief of the Malaysian Border Control and Protection Agency (AKPS), has told reporters that the sheer volume of containers passing through national ports daily makes manual detection challenging. Between Jan. 26 and July 7, a specialized e-waste joint task force called Op Green Shield has inspected 685 containers, an AKPS spokesperson told Mongabay. Among these containers, 143 containers packed with 3,370 short tons (3,057 metric tons) of e-waste have already been sent back to their countries of origin since operations began. Another 531 containers, including backlog from previous operations, are earmarked for the next phased repatriation&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/malaysia-clamps-down-on-toxic-trade-with-total-e-waste-import-ban/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Illegal e-waste trade turns Bangladesh into net importer</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/illegal-e-waste-trade-turns-bangladesh-into-net-importer/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/illegal-e-waste-trade-turns-bangladesh-into-net-importer/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>09 Jun 2026 07:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sajibur Rahman]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Abu Siddique]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Bangladesh, and South Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Business, Chemicals, E-waste, Environment, Environmental Law, Governance, Health, Illegal Trade, Industry, International Trade, Law, Law Enforcement, Pollution, Public Health, Technology, Trade, and Waste]]>
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							<![CDATA[In Bangladesh, poor oversight of unlawful cross-border trade in hazardous electronic waste continues, turning the country into a net importer of electronic waste. The country has rules to control e-waste. It is also a party to the Basel Convention and has introduced its own laws, like the Hazardous Waste (E-waste) Management Rules (2021). However, enforcement [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In Bangladesh, poor oversight of unlawful cross-border trade in hazardous electronic waste continues, turning the country into a net importer of electronic waste. The country has rules to control e-waste. It is also a party to the Basel Convention and has introduced its own laws, like the Hazardous Waste (E-waste) Management Rules (2021). However, enforcement of these frameworks remains weak. Mongabay obtained and reviewed the document outlining Bangladesh’s import and export of e-waste, revealing key details on trade flows and regulatory gaps. The document, by the National Board of Revenue (NBR), shows that 40 companies imported e-waste under HS code 8549 — the international customs code for trading e-waste — at various times between 2022 and 2025, in apparent violation of the Basel Convention, an international treaty to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nations. The textiles and apparel industry leads at 27%, or about one quarter, of all e-waste importers. No response from importers Mongabay reached out to Unilever Bangladesh Limited, one of the 40 e-waste importing companies and the only one that responded. Shamima Akhter, director of corporate affairs, partnerships &amp; communications of Unilever Bangladesh Limited, said in an email on May 21, &#8220;We confirm that we have not imported any e‑waste or restricted items. The product concerned is a load cell, which is a precision measuring instrument, and the correct HS Code for this item is 90318, as declared in our import documentation. Any change to HS Code 8549 during the clearance process was made independently&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/illegal-e-waste-trade-turns-bangladesh-into-net-importer/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-320801</doi>				</item>
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					<title>The digital graveyard: Is Bangladesh becoming China’s e-waste back door?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/the-digital-graveyard-is-bangladesh-becoming-chinas-e-waste-back-door/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 May 2026 13:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sajibur Rahman]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Abu Siddique]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Bangladesh, and South Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[E-waste, Environment, Environmental Law, Health, Law, Public Health, Recycling, Trade, and Waste]]>
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							<![CDATA[As the world turns its attention to China’s increasingly stringent waste import ban, a dangerous stream of electronic waste is entering Bangladesh. Despite the enactment of the Hazardous Waste (e-waste) Management Rules 2021, weak regulatory systems and illegal trade routes are making the country a major destination for global “e-waste.” Electronic waste (e-waste), which includes [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As the world turns its attention to China’s increasingly stringent waste import ban, a dangerous stream of electronic waste is entering Bangladesh. Despite the enactment of the Hazardous Waste (e-waste) Management Rules 2021, weak regulatory systems and illegal trade routes are making the country a major destination for global “e-waste.” Electronic waste (e-waste), which includes discarded computers, laptops, phones, refrigerators and medical equipment, has become a growing crisis. According to the Bangladesh Mobile Phone Importers Association, about 35 million mobile handsets are sold every year in Bangladesh. With an average lifespan of just 2-4 years, about 30 million devices enter the local waste stream every year, most of which go unmonitored. The crisis is exacerbated by a massive increase in electronics imports. Bangladesh Bank (BB) data show that more than $2.47 billion was spent on imports of electrical appliances and accessories in the 2024-25 fiscal year. A significant portion of this was coming from China worth $1.8 billion. However, experts warn that a growing black market in refurbished products is hiding the true extent of the environmental threat. Refrigerator compressors stored and dismantled in unsafe ways. Image by Abdullah Zahid Osmani, TIB. Escalating electronics imports and the e-waste shadow The influx of electronics into Bangladesh has reached staggering proportions, raising significant concerns over the nation’s potential role as an unwritten “dumping ground” for global waste. A latest Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) study, using import and export data from the customs department, has revealed that Bangladesh imported e-waste materials worth around&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/the-digital-graveyard-is-bangladesh-becoming-chinas-e-waste-back-door/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-318733</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Can two Amazons survive? Invisible e-waste is poisoning the world</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/can-two-amazons-survive-invisible-e-waste-is-poisoning-the-world/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Dec 2025 21:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Gerry McGovernSue Branford]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Planetary Boundaries]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, Ghana, Global, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Air Pollution, Business, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Footprint, Climate Change, Consumption, E-waste, Emission Reduction, Energy, Environment, Environmental Policy, Global Environmental Crisis, Globalization, Health, Industry, Mining, Overconsumption, Planetary Health, Pollution, Public Health, Recycling, Research, Water, and Water Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[“I live in Accra, Ghana,” says Isaac Dinwe, who works for Closing the Loop, a Dutch company that works with the electronics industry to increase global recycling. “The e-waste problem in my country is so huge we are unable to manage it. Most of our e-waste ends up in city centres. Informal workers extract what [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[“I live in Accra, Ghana,” says Isaac Dinwe, who works for Closing the Loop, a Dutch company that works with the electronics industry to increase global recycling. “The e-waste problem in my country is so huge we are unable to manage it. Most of our e-waste ends up in city centres. Informal workers extract what they can sell and burn the rest. It causes a lot of pollution,” Dinwe writes in an email to Mongabay from the group. Dinwe is one of a handful of Ghanaians tackling a public health and environmental crisis brought on by the global consumer economy and a lack of legislation and infrastructure around the globe. Dinwe heads a team trained to properly handle e-waste and travels to repair shops, villages and churches to buy “dead” phones that would otherwise end up landfilled or burned. “We are careful not to pay too much, as we want the phones to be used right up to the end of their life,” explains Closing the Loop CEO Joost de Kluijver. Isaac Dinwe, a Ghanaian, heads a team of 16 people who buy &#8216;dead&#8217; phones cheaply from repair shops and elsewhere in Accra, Ghana, to prevent them from being tossed into landfills. But, despite the team&#8217;s work, a lot of e-waste ends up in waste dumps where scavengers extract salvageable bits, then burn the rest, causing pollution that threatens public health. Image courtesy of Closing the Loop. Closing the Loop has joined with phone makers and sellers in Europe to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/can-two-amazons-survive-invisible-e-waste-is-poisoning-the-world/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-310477</doi>				</item>
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					<title>‘Alarming’ levels of toxins found in free-range eggs near dumpsites globally</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/alarming-levels-of-toxins-found-in-free-range-eggs-near-dumpsites-globally/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Oct 2025 14:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sean Mowbray]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Birds, Chemicals, Conservation, Diseases, E-waste, Environment, Food, food security, Globalization, Health, International Trade, Plastic, Pollution, Public Health, Regulations, Research, Toxicology, and Waste]]>
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							<![CDATA[A recent study has found “alarming” levels of toxic chemicals in free-range eggs around the globe. The finding is based on more than a decade of analyses of eggs on five continents, which detected free-range eggs contaminated with globally banned flame retardants, and particularly brominated dioxins, which are toxic to human health and the environment. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A recent study has found “alarming” levels of toxic chemicals in free-range eggs around the globe. The finding is based on more than a decade of analyses of eggs on five continents, which detected free-range eggs contaminated with globally banned flame retardants, and particularly brominated dioxins, which are toxic to human health and the environment. E-waste sites, dumpsites and waste incinerators are key sources of these pollutants, with eggs tested in their vicinity found to be severely contaminated by chemicals released when plastic waste is burned. Eggs sampled near an e-waste site in Ghana in 2019, for example, had levels of brominated and chlorinated dioxins 200 times higher than the safety standard for food. Intentional production and use of dioxins has been eliminated or severely restricted worldwide under the U.N. Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). The study, published in the journal Emerging Contaminants, was led by the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN), along with the Czech nonprofit Arnika and an international team of scientists. The research was far-reaching, with free-range egg toxicology data gathered in many developing countries, and countries with economies in transition, in Africa, Asia, North and South America and Europe. The findings are extremely concerning, the study authors say, as eggs are an important source of protein in low- and middle-income countries, with the study indicating these toxic chemicals are entering the food chain. “We know from decades of studies that dioxins are some of the most toxic chemicals that we are aware of,” says&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/alarming-levels-of-toxins-found-in-free-range-eggs-near-dumpsites-globally/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-307677</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Commercial space race comes with multiple planetary health risks</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/commercial-space-race-comes-with-multiple-planetary-health-risks/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Jul 2025 13:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sean Mowbray]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Planetary Boundaries]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Business, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Footprint, Climate Change, Conservation, data, Deforestation, Development, E-waste, Environment, Globalization, Ozone Layer, Planetary Boundaries, Politics, Pollution, Remote Sensing, Research, Science, Space, Technology, and Waste]]>
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							<![CDATA[The skies overhead are already teeming with satellites. But their orbiting numbers will skyrocket in the near future as the commercial and international space race takes off. Three projects alone — SpaceX’s Starlink, China’s Guowang megaconstellation, and Donald Trump’s proposed Golden Dome missile defense system — will launch tens of thousands of new satellites. Today’s [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The skies overhead are already teeming with satellites. But their orbiting numbers will skyrocket in the near future as the commercial and international space race takes off. Three projects alone — SpaceX’s Starlink, China’s Guowang megaconstellation, and Donald Trump’s proposed Golden Dome missile defense system — will launch tens of thousands of new satellites. Today’s 12,000 satellites could, according to some estimates, grow to 60,000, or even 100,000 total satellites by 2030, as a space industry already worth hundreds of billions of dollars sees rapid growth. This 21st-century space race, while a boon for communications and Earth monitoring, is sending up a red flag with experts, who warn that the tech advances satellite may bring are linked to a growing number of Earth environmental impacts stretching from the industry’s supply chain here on Earth, into the upper atmosphere and out into space itself. With countries initiating or expanding their space programs (including the U.S., EU, India, Japan, China, Russia, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates), and commercial efforts all in full swing, “we&#8217;re moving towards an industry that could cause a lot of damage to the environment if we don&#8217;t regulate it or understand it,” now, says Eloise Marais, an atmospheric chemist at University College London, U.K. The industry’s toll stretches from its ground-based, energy-guzzling data centers, to metal-shedding rocket launches, to tons of orbiting space junk and debris regularly plummeting back to Earth. Among the risks are poorly understood space age atmospheric pollutants that could harm the ozone&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/commercial-space-race-comes-with-multiple-planetary-health-risks/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-302922</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Bitcoin boom comes with huge intensifying environmental footprint</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/bitcoin-boom-comes-with-huge-intensifying-environmental-footprint/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Jun 2025 16:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Gerry McGovernSue Branford]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Planetary Boundaries]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global, North America, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[carbon, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Offsets, Climate Change, Coal, Conservation, Consumption, data, E-waste, Energy, Environment, Finance, Fossil Fuels, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Politics, Social Justice, Technology, and Water]]>
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							<![CDATA[While much has been written about bitcoin, many people still find it a hard topic to comprehend, even as promoters like U.S. President Donald Trump rave about it being a revolutionary digital currency that will rapidly replace hard currency. However, unlike money, there’s currently no bank or government to back up, insure and regulate bitcoin, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[While much has been written about bitcoin, many people still find it a hard topic to comprehend, even as promoters like U.S. President Donald Trump rave about it being a revolutionary digital currency that will rapidly replace hard currency. However, unlike money, there’s currently no bank or government to back up, insure and regulate bitcoin, or protect small holders. It’s an unregulated tool for speculators, not savers, according to critics. Bitcoin today dominates the world of cryptocurrencies: digital “money” based on cryptography, a form of complex mathematics using secret codes that require decryption to achieve worth. Ultimately, bitcoin’s value comes down to something akin to fantasy or faith, it merely being a series of ones and zeros anonymously laced across the internet and “mined” by those few with the financial clout and tech capacity to do so. As such, bitcoin flourishes in a speculative crypto marketplace, posing high risk of boom or bust. But, unlike Holland&#8217;s wildly speculative 17th century tulipmania market bubble, (which upon collapse at least left investors with a garden full of pretty flowers), a bitcoin bust leaves the holder with naught but ones and zeros. Bitcoin does, however, possess an enduring real-world footprint: The greater the perceived value bitcoin achieves, the more environmentally destructive its mining becomes, as it demands ever escalating amounts of energy (with accompanying carbon emissions) to crack the increasingly complex crypto code. Donald Trump originally spoke out against cryptocurrencies, but during his 2024 presidential campaign he wholeheartedly embraced bitcoin, and he continues&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/bitcoin-boom-comes-with-huge-intensifying-environmental-footprint/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>How &#8216;waste colonialism&#8217; underpins Asia’s plastic problem (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/how-waste-colonialism-underpins-asias-plastic-problem-commentary/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/how-waste-colonialism-underpins-asias-plastic-problem-commentary/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>18 Nov 2024 17:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Coleen Salamat]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia and Southeast Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Climate, Climate Change, Commentary, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporations, E-waste, Environment, Governance, Microplastics, Plastic, Pollution, Social Justice, Trade, and Waste]]>
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							<![CDATA[‘Out of sight, out of mind’ is a typical approach to waste and is one of the main reasons why the waste trade persists. The world discovered that toxic waste was being dumped in Africa and other developing countries in the 1980s, and since 1988, more than a quarter of a billion tons of plastic [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[‘Out of sight, out of mind’ is a typical approach to waste and is one of the main reasons why the waste trade persists. The world discovered that toxic waste was being dumped in Africa and other developing countries in the 1980s, and since 1988, more than a quarter of a billion tons of plastic waste have been exported around the world, usually from the Global North to common destinations like Southeast Asian countries plus India and Turkey. Following public outcry and heightened environmental awareness, the Basel Convention, the first global legal instrument to control the transboundary movement of hazardous waste, was developed in 1989. It took 3 decades for the Convention to also include plastic waste through its amendments, but the Basel Convention Plastic Waste Amendments came into force in 2021. But why does waste trade still happen? The term ‘waste colonialism’ was coined in 1989 at one of the convention meetings, to describe the dumping of waste from higher-income countries in lower-income countries. It is also referred to as ‘waste neocolonialism,’ since it’s the direct export of toxic waste into former colonial states or other areas on the economic periphery. Malaysia and India, which are former British colonies, receive plastic waste from the United Kingdom, while Vietnam receives plastic waste from the European Union and the United States, and Indonesia from Japan, the United States, and the European Union, for instance. On average from 2021 to 2023, Malaysia received 1.4 billion kilograms of plastic waste, Vietnam 1 billion,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/how-waste-colonialism-underpins-asias-plastic-problem-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-290265</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Ever-smarter consumer electronics push world toward environmental brink</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/09/ever-smarter-consumer-electronics-push-world-toward-environmental-brink/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/09/ever-smarter-consumer-electronics-push-world-toward-environmental-brink/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>30 Sep 2024 15:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Gerry McGovernSue Branford]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Circular economy and Planetary Boundaries]]>
						</reporting-project>
					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Costa Rica, Global, and Taiwan]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Business, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Footprint, charcoal, Climate Change, Coal, Consumption, E-waste, Emission Reduction, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Environmental Policy, Fossil Fuels, Global Environmental Crisis, Industry, Mining, Overconsumption, Pollution, Recycling, Research, Water, and Water Scarcity]]>
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							<![CDATA[In recent decades, the electronics industry experienced meteoric growth as it swiftly invented and marketed a galaxy of novel products for consumers hungry for the next innovation, better performance and greater convenience. In 2024, the consumer electronics market alone is expected to top $809 billion, exceeding $1.4 trillion by 2034. But there’s a dark side [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In recent decades, the electronics industry experienced meteoric growth as it swiftly invented and marketed a galaxy of novel products for consumers hungry for the next innovation, better performance and greater convenience. In 2024, the consumer electronics market alone is expected to top $809 billion, exceeding $1.4 trillion by 2034. But there’s a dark side to this tech miracle: Our digital age love affair with ever-more-powerful cell phones, smart TVs, laptops, tablets, gaming consoles and other devices comes with a high price. The environmental and social costs of producing the trillions of silicon semiconductor chips needed to run our gadgets and to operate remote data centers is escalating incredibly fast and “fostering an environmental time bomb,” warns Ian Williams, professor of applied environmental science at the University of Southampton, U.K. “The environmental impact of making semiconductor chips is already huge and increasing rapidly,” Williams tells Mongabay. Today, the complex integrated circuitry inside an electronic device is a miracle of miniaturization and nanometer-accurate precision with each millimeter-thick, fingernail-sized silicon chip incorporating 30-100 sandwiched layers of etched interconnected transistors and electronic components. But chip structure and computing power doesn’t stand still: It must keep pace with new tech innovations. “Each new generation requires more energy and water and generates more greenhouse gases than the previous generation,” Williams explains. However, few seem aware of the looming risk. Competition among tech giants to produce faster, more advanced devices is leading to unbridled demand for increasingly sophisticated semiconductors, worsening global impacts. Unless urgent action is&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/09/ever-smarter-consumer-electronics-push-world-toward-environmental-brink/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Bangladesh incinerator project sparks row between government &#038; contractor</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/06/bangladesh-incinerator-project-sparks-row-between-government-contractor/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/06/bangladesh-incinerator-project-sparks-row-between-government-contractor/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>26 Jun 2024 14:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Kamran Reza Chowdhury]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Abu Siddique]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, Bangladesh, and Southeast Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Development, E-waste, Environment, Environmental Law, Governance, Industry, Law, Pollution, Recycling, Sustainable Development, and Waste]]>
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							<![CDATA[A disagreement between the Bangladesh government and the contractor China Machinery and Engineering Corp. (CMEC) has apparently stalled the implementation of the first-ever waste-to-power project in Bangladesh&#8217;s capital, Dhaka. This has exposed a debate about whether the government should proceed with the controversial incineration project. The contracting authority, Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), wants to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A disagreement between the Bangladesh government and the contractor China Machinery and Engineering Corp. (CMEC) has apparently stalled the implementation of the first-ever waste-to-power project in Bangladesh&#8217;s capital, Dhaka. This has exposed a debate about whether the government should proceed with the controversial incineration project. The contracting authority, Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), wants to execute the 42-megawatt electricity project at the Aminbazar landfill site, where the corporation dumps 3,500 metric tons of waste per day. Data show that Bangladesh’s daily per capita generation of solid waste is nearly 35,000 metric tons, and two city corporation areas of the capital produce more than 7,000 metric tons of waste per day. The average solid waste generation per person in 2021 was 520 grams (1.1 pounds), which could shoot up to 800 g (1.7 lbs) in 2030 and 1.19 kilograms (2.6 lbs) by 2041 as the economy grows. The city corporation justifies the project, as it cannot find any new landfill site for the increasing volume of solid waste that generates a huge volume of methane, a potent greenhouse gas 80 times more harmful than carbon dioxide. The government approved the project, and the Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase approved the power purchase deal on Nov. 12, 2020. However, the CMEC has yet to build the basic infrastructure of the $500 million project due to a disagreement with the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. According to the conditions negotiated, the CMEC will build the incineration facility for which DNCC will&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/06/bangladesh-incinerator-project-sparks-row-between-government-contractor/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-283700</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Study: Tricky balancing act between EV scale-up and mining battery metals</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/study-tricky-balancing-act-between-ev-scale-up-and-mining-battery-metals/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/study-tricky-balancing-act-between-ev-scale-up-and-mining-battery-metals/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>08 Sep 2023 15:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Air Pollution, Alternative Energy, Batteries, Bioenergy, Business, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Market, Chemicals, Clean Energy, Climate Change, climate finance, Climate Science, E-waste, Electric Cars, Emission Reduction, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Industry, Lithium, Mining, Mitigation, Politics, Pollution, Rainforests, Renewable Energy, Research, Supply Chain, Sustainable Development, Technology, Transportation, and Water Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[Rapidly transitioning the world’s vehicle fleet to fully electric could significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, but also dramatically increase demand for critical battery metals like lithium, nickel and cobalt, according to a new study in the journal Nature Communications. Researchers from Cornell University and the Paul Scherrer Institute modeled different scenarios where major [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Rapidly transitioning the world’s vehicle fleet to fully electric could significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, but also dramatically increase demand for critical battery metals like lithium, nickel and cobalt, according to a new study in the journal Nature Communications. Researchers from Cornell University and the Paul Scherrer Institute modeled different scenarios where major countries phase out oil-powered vehicles and switch to electric vehicles by 2050. &#8220;The big picture is the climate issue,” study co-author Fengqi You told Mongabay. “As we try to decarbonize transportation with electric vehicles, the challenge is, will we have enough materials and metals to manufacture enough EVs to meet demand in the future?&#8221; The analysis shows clear tensions between reducing emissions and straining supplies of essential EV battery metals. With 40% EV adoption by 2050, lithium demand could jump by 2,909% from 2020 levels. In a 100% EV scenario, lithium needs could grow by more than 7,500% by 2050. Nickel, cobalt and manganese requirements would also surge by more than 2,000% each. Mining these metals has major environmental impacts, typically requiring deforestation and a lot of water. Tailings from mining can pollute waterways with toxic chemicals like cyanide, mercury and arsenic if not properly contained. Many key battery metals are concentrated in Chile, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia and South Africa. The study indicates a rapid transition to EV use, coupled with cleaner electricity like solar, could substantially cut transportation emissions. With 100% EVs and energy systems limiting global warming to 1.5° Celsius&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/study-tricky-balancing-act-between-ev-scale-up-and-mining-battery-metals/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-273082</doi>				</item>
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					<title>From grassroots to government, Singapore takes lead in tackling e-waste</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/from-grassroots-to-government-singapore-takes-lead-in-tackling-e-waste/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/from-grassroots-to-government-singapore-takes-lead-in-tackling-e-waste/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>21 Aug 2023 15:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Abhishyant Kidangoor]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Circular economy and Product Lifecycles]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, Singapore, and Southeast Asia]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Chemicals, Community-based Conservation, E-waste, Environment, Governance, Industry, Pollution, Recycling, Sustainability, Technology, and Waste]]>
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							<![CDATA[SINGAPORE — If you didn’t know better, you might think Edwin Beng is heading home after buying a new appliance. It’s a muggy Sunday morning in Singapore, and Beng, carrying a signature bright blue Ikea bag in one hand, steps off the street, descends into a building basement, and enters a corner room. The vibe [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[SINGAPORE — If you didn’t know better, you might think Edwin Beng is heading home after buying a new appliance. It’s a muggy Sunday morning in Singapore, and Beng, carrying a signature bright blue Ikea bag in one hand, steps off the street, descends into a building basement, and enters a corner room. The vibe inside is cheery as Beng pulls a table fan from his bag. It’s far from new; in fact, he bought it three years ago, but it stopped working the previous week. Beng was about to throw it away when a neighbor told him about Repair Kopitiam. He decided to give the program a shot to see if it could bring the fan back to life. Repair Kopitiam (kopitiam means coffeeshop in the Malay language) isn’t an official repair center. Rather, it’s an innovative program and weekly community gathering where volunteers help fellow Singaporeans repair and reuse their electrical and electronic goods. Started in 2014, the group consists of volunteers enthusiastic about repairing things who have been trained by other volunteers with more technical expertise. A volunteer at Repair Kopitiam inspects a clock brought in for repair. Image by Abhishyant Kidangoor / Mongabay. On this day, a volunteer is focused on fixing a hair dryer. Another listens intently to a woman explaining the issues with a clock she bought in Hong Kong. Shuttling between each group is Danny Lim, overseeing the gathering. “By repairing, we take an item for which carbon is already spent during manufacture,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/from-grassroots-to-government-singapore-takes-lead-in-tackling-e-waste/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-272430</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Playing dangerously: The environmental impact of video gaming consoles</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/playing-dangerously-the-environmental-impact-of-video-gaming-consoles/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Oct 2022 14:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Claire Asher]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Covering the Commons and Product Lifecycles]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Business, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Footprint, Climate Change, E-waste, Emission Reduction, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Environmental Policy, Fossil Fuels, Industry, Mining, Oil Drilling, Plastic, Pollution, Recycling, and Research]]>
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							<![CDATA[The multibillion-dollar global console gaming industry is linked to environmental harm throughout the life cycle of these wildly popular devices. But the industry is taking some steps to curb its excesses.]]>
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							<![CDATA[It began with Pong, an early home video game involving two pixelated paddles and a ball that introduced millions to the thrill of gaming. What started as an arcade game in 1972 entered homes during the 1975 Christmas season. Since then, electronic video gaming has blossomed into a graphically stimulating multibillion-dollar-a-year industry, entertaining more than 3 billion gamers globally. But with explosive popularity has come problems. Like other electronics, gaming consoles are linked to a range of environmental threats, from the metals and plastics required to manufacture them, to the fossil fuel-derived electricity that powers them, to the challenges of recycling the devices after the rapidly deployed next generation displaces them. Although these problems aren’t unique to consoles, the meteoric growth and sheer scale of the industry make it an obvious target for environmentally conscious improvements. With its engaged and discerning consumer base, the gaming industry could be primed for an eco-revolution. Gaming consoles sourced in mining and drilling Like other consumer electronics, game console components are sourced via complex global supply chains that rely upon the mining of critical elements (including metals and rare-earth elements) and the production of new plastics, with parts assembled via highly specialized manufacturing processes — linking the gaming industry to oversized carbon emissions and the devastating environmental and socioeconomic impacts of mining and petroleum extraction. A new console’s ingredient list is stunningly long. It includes gold, copper, lead, nickel, zinc, lithium, cobalt and cadmium — the mining and purification of which are associated with&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/playing-dangerously-the-environmental-impact-of-video-gaming-consoles/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Bangladesh e-waste rules hang in limbo as electrical goods companies ask for delay</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/bangladesh-e-waste-rules-hang-in-limbo-as-electrical-goods-companies-ask-for-delay/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Oct 2022 17:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Maksuda Aziz]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Abu Siddique]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Product Lifecycles]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, Bangladesh, and South Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Chemicals, E-waste, Environment, Environmental Law, Governance, Health, Industry, Law, Pollution, Public Health, Technology, and Waste]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Bangladesh government has taken no effective steps to implement the e-waste management regulations it introduced more than a year back, as the rules relating to it are stuck in procedural issues connected to the World Trade Organization. The longer the implementation is delayed, the larger the pile of e-waste the country will have to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Bangladesh government has taken no effective steps to implement the e-waste management regulations it introduced more than a year back, as the rules relating to it are stuck in procedural issues connected to the World Trade Organization. The longer the implementation is delayed, the larger the pile of e-waste the country will have to eventually deal with, as the country’s electronics and electrical market experiences a massive boom. It took the government nearly 10 years to introduce the E-waste Management Rule, on June 10, 2021, after the first draft was created in 2011. The Department of Environment (DOE) set itself a goal of managing at least 50% of its e-waste in five years and 10% in the first year. It also took steps to set up a reliable recycling system at the Bangabandhu Hi-Tech Park in Kaliakair, Gazipur, shortly after the rule was introduced. The World Bank was also planning to invest roughly BDT 20 billion ($196 million) in the project. The WTO, which reviewed the rules during the draft phase, raised issues with a number of aspects after the rules were published, including the reduced standard for lead in the rule. A number of countries that have a large electrical goods market in Bangladesh are reportedly lobbying WTO for a one-year delay in the implementation of the rule as well as relaxations on a number of fronts. So far, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has managed to host a single meeting since the rule was&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/bangladesh-e-waste-rules-hang-in-limbo-as-electrical-goods-companies-ask-for-delay/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Climate-positive, high-tech metals are polluting Earth, but solutions await</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/climate-positive-high-tech-metals-are-polluting-earth-but-solutions-await/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Mar 2022 14:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Claire Asher]]>
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						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Technology-critical elements (TCEs) — vital for wind and solar power and electric cars — are contaminating land and water, impacting biodiversity and health. A circular economy may be the solution.]]>
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							<![CDATA[The rapid development of renewable energy technologies — including wind, solar and hydropower, and the commercial success of hybrid and fully electric vehicles — are helping put the world on track to achieve a net-zero carbon economy and meet Paris climate agreement targets. Yet these positive advances rely on a small number of “technology-critical elements,” or TCEs, rare materials whose mining, production and disposal are linked to myriad environmental problems, ranging from large-scale energy and water consumption, to serious soil, water and air pollution. These 30 to 35 TCEs are essential to computers, consumer electronics, solar cells, wind turbines, electric cars, plus military and medical applications. They include the platinum family of precious metals, rare-earth elements such as neodymium and scandium, and other metals such as cobalt, lithium and tungsten. What this diverse grouping has in common isn’t some shared chemistry, but rather its technological necessity and geopolitical scarcity. They especially share indispensable characteristics — the ability to store energy or form permanent magnets, for example — that make them essential for technologies that could help meet the Paris goal of limiting global warming to 2° Celsius (3.6° Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels. But the reliance on TCEs to make high-tech green products puts these elements at risk of contributing to the breach of the nine planetary boundaries that demarcate habitable conditions on Earth. Open-pit mines, like this copper and cobalt mine in Zambia, require the clearing of large areas of native vegetation and removal of huge amounts of soil, while&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/climate-positive-high-tech-metals-are-polluting-earth-but-solutions-await/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>San Francisco bars officials from buying Apple computers for city business</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/07/san-francisco-bars-officials-from-buying-apple-computers-for-city-business/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Jul 2012 18:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Certification, E-waste, Environment, Green, Recycling, and Technology]]>
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							<![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s new Macbook Pro with Retina display is said to be the reason Apple pulled out of EPEAT. The computer&#8217;s screen is difficult to recycle or upgrade, according to one report. Employees at San Francisco agencies will no longer be able to buy Apple products for official city business due to the computer giant&#8217;s decision [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s new Macbook Pro with Retina display is said to be the reason Apple pulled out of EPEAT. The computer&#8217;s screen is difficult to recycle or upgrade, according to one report. Employees at San Francisco agencies will no longer be able to buy Apple products for official city business due to the computer giant&#8217;s decision to pull out of a green certification scheme for consumer electronics, reports the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Apple last week removed all of its products from the eco-friendly products registry run by the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT), a group Apple originally helped establish. Apple&#8217;s newest laptops apparently don&#8217;t meet the registry&#8217;s criteria for recycling, according to Infoworld. The city of San Francisco requires agencies to buy 100% EPEAT-certified desktop computers, laptops, and monitors. In 2010 the city spent $45,579 on Apple products out of a $3.8 million budget for computers, according to CIO Journal, the WSJ&#8217;s corporate technology blog. Other municipalities, including agencies and schools, are expected to follow suit due to similar EPEAT stipulations. UPDATE: Apple rejoined EPEAT July 13, 2012 Related articlesThis article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/07/san-francisco-bars-officials-from-buying-apple-computers-for-city-business/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30629</doi>				</item>
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					<title>High-tech hell: new documentary brings Africa&#8217;s e-waste slum to life</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/04/high-tech-hell-new-documentary-brings-africas-e-waste-slum-to-life/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 Apr 2012 18:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Arts, E-waste, Environment, Film, Green, Health, Interviews, Pollution, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, and Waste]]>
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							<![CDATA[Keyboard finds its way to Agbogbloshie. Photo by: David Fedele. Shirtless boys rapidly pull the computer apart, discarding bits and pieces, until they expose the wires, yank them out, and toss them into a fire. Acrid, toxic smoke blooms as the boys prod the wires and the fire strips the plastic around the wires, leaving [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Keyboard finds its way to Agbogbloshie. Photo by: David Fedele. Shirtless boys rapidly pull the computer apart, discarding bits and pieces, until they expose the wires, yank them out, and toss them into a fire. Acrid, toxic smoke blooms as the boys prod the wires and the fire strips the plastic around the wires, leaving the sought-after copper. Welcome, to Agbogbloshie, where your technology goes to die. A new film e-wasteland captures the horrors of the world&#8217;s largest e-waste slum through surreal and staggering images. Shot over three weeks by one-man guerrilla filmmaker, David Fedele, e-wasteland is an entirely visual experience without dialogue or voice-over. &#8220;I wanted to visually present a particular environment, attempt to show it as truthfully as possible, and give people the responsibility to think about the issues themselves,&#8221; Fedele told mongabay.com in an interview. &#8220;I believe that images can be far more powerful than words, and can have a much bigger impact and remain in your memory longer.&#8221; A slum of Ghana&#8217;s capital city, Accra, Agbogbloshie is home to some 40,000 people, mostly migrants from rural areas, and many eke out a living by breaking down and burning e-waste for raw materials that can be re-sold. The slum is a byproduct of what Fedele calls the western world&#8217;s &#8220;obscene obsession [&#8230;] with consuming, discarding, then consuming again.&#8221; &#8220;I attempted to show that these expensive &#8216;things&#8217; that we acquire, once they get old or broken, are nothing more than bits of plastic, metal, chemicals and other waste,&#8221;&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/04/high-tech-hell-new-documentary-brings-africas-e-waste-slum-to-life/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30981</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Children on the frontlines: the e-waste epidemic in Africa</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/09/children-on-the-frontlines-the-e-waste-epidemic-in-africa/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Sep 2011 13:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Karimeh Moukaddem]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Consumption, E-waste, Economics, Environment, Environmental Law, Governance, Green, Health, Interviews, Pollution, Poverty, Recycling, and Technology]]>
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							<![CDATA[A boy pushing a shopping cart load of wires going for burning in the Agbogbloshie ghetto in Accra, Ghana. Photo by: Kwei Quartey. In Agbogbloshie, a slum outside the capital city of Accra, Ghana, tons of electronic waste lies smoldering in toxic piles. Children make their way through this dangerous environment, desperate to strip even [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A boy pushing a shopping cart load of wires going for burning in the Agbogbloshie ghetto in Accra, Ghana. Photo by: Kwei Quartey. In Agbogbloshie, a slum outside the capital city of Accra, Ghana, tons of electronic waste lies smoldering in toxic piles. Children make their way through this dangerous environment, desperate to strip even a few ounces of copper, aluminum, brass, and zinc from worn-out electronics originating from the United States and Europe. &#8220;The smell alone will drive all but the most desperate away, but many are so desperate they persevere despite the obvious dangers. It is a very tough thing to witness,&#8221; explains Dr. Kwei Quartey, a Ghanaian author and physician, in a recent mongabay.com interview. Electronic waste (e-waste), or worn-out electrical equipment, includes television sets, computers, phones, personal electronic devices, and refrigerators. &#8220;I visited Agbogbloshie in June,&#8221; says Dr. Quartey, &#8220;I was born and raised in Accra before this ghetto became the de facto dumping ground for the west&#8217;s electronic waste. I decided to feature it in my latest novel Children of the Street because Agbogbloshie needs more attention&#8212; not less.&#8221; According to Deborah McGrath, a Biology professor at Sewanee: the University of the South with expertise in biogeochemistry, nearly three percent of e-waste is composed of toxins including lead, arsenic, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, and mercury. Mercury and lead are particularly dangerous neurotoxins that bioaccumulate in children&#8217;s bodies over time. Dr. Kwei Quartey. Photo courtesy of: Kwei Quartey. &#8220;I met many of these children in Accra during&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/09/children-on-the-frontlines-the-e-waste-epidemic-in-africa/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Universal phone charger to cut e-waste</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2009/02/universal-phone-charger-to-cut-e-waste/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Feb 2009 04:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[E-waste, Environment, Green, Green Design, Happy-upbeat Environmental, and Technology]]>
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					<title>U.S. ignores laws on e-waste disposal</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2008/09/u-s-ignores-laws-on-e-waste-disposal/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Sep 2008 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[U.S. ignores laws on e-waste disposal U.S. ignores laws on e-waste disposal mongabay.com September 19, 2008]]>
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					<title>Video game-makers score low on sustainability</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2007/11/video-game-makers-score-low-on-sustainability/</link>
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					<pubDate>27 Nov 2007 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Video game-makers score low on sustainability Video game-makers score low on sustainability mongabay.com November 27, 2007 Video game console manufacturers are doing a poor job eliminating toxic chemicals from their products, according to environmental group Greenpeace. In the sixth edition of its &#8216;Guide to Greener Electronics&#8216;, Greenpeace says that &#8220;Microsoft, Nintendo, Philips and Sharp enter [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Video game-makers score low on sustainability Video game-makers score low on sustainability mongabay.com November 27, 2007 Video game console manufacturers are doing a poor job eliminating toxic chemicals from their products, according to environmental group Greenpeace. In the sixth edition of its &#8216;Guide to Greener Electronics&#8216;, Greenpeace says that &#8220;Microsoft, Nintendo, Philips and Sharp enter at the bottom of the ranking of environmental performance.&#8221; Nintendo became the first company to score zero out of a possible ten points. Sony Ericsson tops the list, followed closely by Samsung. Both companies have made progress towards eliminating hazardous ingredients from their products and offer take-back and recycling programs. The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA). Courtesy of NASA/USGS The global computer games sector shipped 62.7 million units in 2006, up 14.9 percent from 2005. &#8220;The low scores from leading manufacturers Nintendo and Microsoft reveal that they have a long way to go to improve their environmental policies and practices,&#8221; said Greenpeace in a statement. &#8220;To achieve higher rankings, companies really need to walk the talk instead of making vague commitments to future progress,&#8221; said Rick Hind, Legislative Director of the Greenpeace toxics campaign in the U.S. &#8220;Environmental leadership and innovation are evident as companies put products on the market free of hazardous chemicals and institute recycling take-back programs which are actually operational.&#8221; Greenpeace Ratings BEST 7.7 Sony Ericsson &#8211; New leader due to improved takeback reporting, new models PVC free, but falls down on takeback practice. 7.7 Samsung &#8211; Big improvements, with products&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2007/11/video-game-makers-score-low-on-sustainability/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Sony launches consumer electronics recycling program</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2007/08/sony-launches-consumer-electronics-recycling-program/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Aug 2007 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sony launches consumer electronics recycling program Sony launches consumer electronics recycling program mongabay.com August 17, 2007 Sony has launched a recycling program for consumer electronics. The Sony Take Back Recycling Program will accept any Sony products for free. Electronics made by other manufacturers can be dropped off for a charge. The company has teamed with [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Sony launches consumer electronics recycling program Sony launches consumer electronics recycling program mongabay.com August 17, 2007 Sony has launched a recycling program for consumer electronics. The Sony Take Back Recycling Program will accept any Sony products for free. Electronics made by other manufacturers can be dropped off for a charge. The company has teamed with 75 Waste Management (WM) Recycle America eCycling centers across the country and expects to eventually expand the number of drop-off centers to at least 175, putting a center within 20 miles of 95 percent of Americans. The Sony Take Back Recycling Program begins September 15. &#8220;We believe it is Sony&#8217;s responsibility to provide customers with end-of-life solutions for all the products we manufacture,&#8221; said Stan Glasgow, president and chief operating officer of Sony Electronics. A complete list of WM Recycle America eCycling Drop-Off centers can be found by calling 1-877-439-2795. Sony recently ranked in the middle of the pack for consumer electronics firms for its efforts on fighting global warming. Climate Counts, a nonprofit that works to promote responsible climate policy among corporations, gave Sony a 51 on its climate scorecard based on 22 criteria within four benchmarks: whether they measure their carbon footprint; what efforts they have made to reduce their own climate impact; whether they support or oppose global-warming legislation; and what they disclose to the public about their work to address climate change. Sony ranked behind Canon (77), IBM (70), Toshiba (66), Motorola (60), and Hewlett-Packard (59), but ahead of Dell (41),&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2007/08/sony-launches-consumer-electronics-recycling-program/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Apple defends green credentials, promises to do better</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2007/05/apple-defends-green-credentials-promises-to-do-better/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 May 2007 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Apple defends green credentials, promises to do better Apple defends green credentials, promises to do better mongabay.com May 4, 2007 In a open letter posted Wednesday, Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs countered claims by green groups that the iPod and computer maker lagged in recycling and removing toxic chemicals from its products. He said the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Apple defends green credentials, promises to do better Apple defends green credentials, promises to do better mongabay.com May 4, 2007 In a open letter posted Wednesday, Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs countered claims by green groups that the iPod and computer maker lagged in recycling and removing toxic chemicals from its products. He said the company is already an industry leader when it comes to the environment and that Apple will continue to reduce its impact on the planet. Upon investigating Apple&#8217;s current practices and progress towards these goals, I was surprised to learn that in many cases Apple is ahead of, or will soon be ahead of, most of its competitors in these areas.&#8221; he wrote in a manifesto titled &#8220;A Greener Apple.&#8221; Jobs said criticism from environmental groups stems from the company&#8217;s lack of communication with the public. &#8220;Whatever other improvements we need to make, it is certainly clear that we have failed to communicate the things that we are doing well,&#8221; wrote Jobs. &#8220;It is generally not Apple&#8217;s policy to trumpet our plans for the future; we tend to talk about the things we have just accomplished. Unfortunately this policy has left our customers, shareholders, employees and the industry in the dark about Apple&#8217;s desires and plans to become greener. Our stakeholders deserve and expect more from us, and they&#8217;re right to do so. They want us to be a leader in this area, just as we are in the other areas of our business. So today&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2007/05/apple-defends-green-credentials-promises-to-do-better/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Eco-Friendly Computers and Monitors Identified</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2006/07/eco-friendly-computers-and-monitors-identified/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Jul 2006 15:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Eco-Friendly Computers and Monitors Identified Eco-Friendly Computers and Monitors Identified Green Electronics Council July 22, 2006 More than 60 desktop computers, laptops, and monitors from three manufacturers were recognized today as part of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funded effort to identify high performance, environmentally friendly computer equipment. All of the products meet the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Eco-Friendly Computers and Monitors Identified Eco-Friendly Computers and Monitors Identified Green Electronics Council July 22, 2006 More than 60 desktop computers, laptops, and monitors from three manufacturers were recognized today as part of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funded effort to identify high performance, environmentally friendly computer equipment. All of the products meet the new EPEAT &#8220;green&#8221; computer standard and they are listed online in the EPEAT database at ww.epeat.net. Compared to traditional computer equipment, all EPEAT-registered computers have reduced levels of cadmium, lead, and mercury to better protect human health and the environment. They are more energy efficient, which reduces emissions of climate changing greenhouse gases. They are also easier to upgrade and recycle. In fact, manufacturers must offer safe recycling options for the products when they are no longer useable. EPEAT products are identified as EPEAT-Bronze, EPEAT-Silver, or EPEAT-Gold depending on the number of optional environmental criteria incorporated in the product. Ed Pinero, the White House Federal Environmental Executive explained that &#8220;EPEAT is a great example of market-based environmental stewardship. It creates a powerful tool for purchasers to select environmentally preferable products and creates a clear set of rules for the manufacturers to follow to meet that demand.&#8221; Computer monitor washed up on a remote beach in Central Africa Consumers want environmentally friendly computers A study conducted earlier this year by Ipsos-MORI on behalf of Greenpeace found that consumers say they would be willing to pay more for an environmentally friendly computer. The amounts ranged from $59&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2006/07/eco-friendly-computers-and-monitors-identified/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Consumers want environmentally friendly computers</title>
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					<pubDate>26 Jun 2006 15:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Consumers want environmentally friendly computers Consumers want environmentally friendly computers mongabay.com June 26, 2006 A study conducted earlier this year by Ipsos-MORI on behalf of Greenpeace found that consumers say they would be willing to pay more for an environmentally friendly computer. The amounts ranged from $59 in Germany, $118 in UK, $199 in China [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Consumers want environmentally friendly computers Consumers want environmentally friendly computers mongabay.com June 26, 2006 A study conducted earlier this year by Ipsos-MORI on behalf of Greenpeace found that consumers say they would be willing to pay more for an environmentally friendly computer. The amounts ranged from $59 in Germany, $118 in UK, $199 in China and $229 in Mexico. Electronic waste (&#8220;e-waste&#8221;) is a serious concern for environmentalists. Every year, hundreds of thousands of old computers, mobile phones, and other electronic devices containing toxic chemicals are dumped in landfills, burned, or exported to poor countries where they are salvaged for parts and buried. The built-in obsolescence of cheap electronic goods has worsened the problem in recent years. Some companies are now offering e-waste recycling programs to safely remove toxic elements and reuse components and raw materials. Dell, one of the world&#8217;s largest manufacturers of computers recently said it would phase out the use of two especially toxic chemicals &#8212; brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and the plastic polyvinyl chlorine (PVC) &#8212; by 2009. Hewlett Packard (HP), LGE, Nokia, Samsung, Sony and Sony Ericsson have recently made similar commitments according to Greenpeace, which believes these programs are key to the making the tech industry greener. Computer monitor washed up on a remote beach in Central Africa &#8220;Companies that take responsibility for the whole lifecycle of their products from cradle to grave ensure that their products last longer and cause less pollution,&#8221; reads said Greenpeace in a press statement. &#8220;Companies that take responsibility&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2006/06/consumers-want-environmentally-friendly-computers/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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