The American Electronics Association, which includes such major corporations as Intel, Microsoft, and IBM, argues that the new EU directive to keep hazardous electronic waste out of the landfill constitutes an unfair technical barrier to trade under World Trade Organization rules.
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US
Thwarting European Efforts to Reduce
Hazardous Electronics Waste
by Brian Ladd
US
Electronics manufacturers are invoking the World Trade Organization’s rules of trade in an effort to thwart a European Union
(EU) directive that would result in the safe manufacture, recovery and recycling of millions of tons of electrical and electronic equipment, including countless obsolete computers.
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Where
does a good recycler go to get rid of goods designed for
disposal? Producer Responsibility puts the responsibility
for materials entering waste system on the manufacturer
instead of leaving the consumer holding the bag.
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Zero
Waste-On the Move Around
the World
US Communities, Retailers and Other Countries Begin to Implement Producer Responsibility
by Sam Cole
“Zero
Waste” is an approach many communities, countries
and businesses are taking to solve our planet’s
resource depletion crisis. With Zero Waste, discards are seen as valuable resources that generations to come will need. Instead of protecting these resources by simply recovering them for recycling after a product’s useful life is over, Zero Waste goes beyond recycling and looks at the entire life-cycle of a product, from design phase to recovery. One of the key components of this approach is called Producer Responsibility (PR). PR does exactly what it says: it puts the responsibility for materials entering the waste stream on the front-end of a product’s life, with the manufacturer — not on the back-end, with the consumer. The goal is to encourage manufacturers to redesign their products in a way that minimizes waste and toxicity, and facilitates reuse, recycling and recovery.
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