Press Releases and News Stories

• Buy Use Dispose - 17 December 2002
• Seagate Unveils New Labor Health Guidelines - 12 December 2002
• North's Fleet of Toxic Tankers a Threat to South - 12 December 2002
• The E-Waste Land - 30 November 2002
• Labor Laws Enter Debate Abuse Charges Follow Industry - 26 November 2002
• Recycling Solutions for PCs are Limited and Face Obstacles - 26 November 2002
• States Seek Tougher 'Right to Know' on Toxics - 26 November 2002
• Daring to Complain - 25 November 2002
• Cheap Products' Human Cost - 24 November 2002
• Where Computers Go To Die - 23 November 2002
• Australian Company's Toxic Waste Dumping Breaches International Law - 16 November 2002
• Rethinking the Think Tanks - October 2002
• Ontario EA Process Being Monitored by UN Commission on Human Rights - 28 October 2002
• Environmentalists Say Canadian Companies Illegally Shipping Scrap Electronics - 25 October 2002
• US Plans to Thwart Global Mercury Treaty Talks, Leaked Document Shows - 23 October 2002
• Global NGO Alliance Calls on WHO to Stop Threatening Public Health While Working to Save it - 23 October 2002
• Recycling Phones to Charities Not Landfills - 23 October 2002
• Smit Salvage Completes Hazchem Removal From 'Jolly Rubino' - 21 October 2002
• IMO Green Lights 'Green Passport' Initiative - 18 October 2002
• International Toxics Watchdog Condemns Canada Over Bennett Incinerator Imports - 15 October 2002
• Feds Fined Under NAFTA for PCB Export Ban - 12 October 2002
• Electro-Scrap Setting the Example with Individual Producer Responsibility! - 11 October 2002
• Parliament Wins Electroscrap Concilation Duel - 11 October 2002
• Philippines Will Not Allow Import of Toxic Chemicals - 7 October 2002
• Greenpeace Stops Silver Ray From Leaving Antwerp - 7 October 2002
• Computing the Damage - 1 October 2002
• Governor Davis Commits to Strong Takeback Bill in 2003 - 1 October 2002
• China Turns Away Garbage Containers of "Electronic Waste" from the United States - 26 September 2002
• Cargo from Stricken Ship off South Africa Washes Up Far Away - 24 September 2002
• Activists Attack Proposed Waste Deal - 24 September 2002
• Electroscrap Conciliation Clock Starts Ticking - 19 September 2002
• Commission Set on Green Electronics Design Plan - 19 September 2002
• Import Ban Sought on Electrical Products - 19 September 2002
• China Seizes Banned Waste - 18 September 2002
• Three Cambodians Arrested for Importing Toxic Waste from China - 18 September 2002
• Plans Shelved to Tow Ship Stranded Offshore S. Africa as Fire Worsens - 18 September 2002
• Blazing Ship Spills Oil Near South African Wetland - 17 September 2002
• Combatting E-Waste - 16 September 2002
• Recycling Group Rejects EU Waste Shipment Proposals - 16 September 2002
• Budget Battle Could Scuttle Ghost Fleet Cleanup Plan - 15 September 2002
• Greenpeace Follows Toxic Ship 'Gerd' to its Final Destination - 13 September 2002
• Chinese Customs Seizes 'Electronic Garbage' - 13 September 2002
• EU Plan for Waste Trade Rules Makes Waves - 10 September 2002
• EC Proposes Ban on Nonylphenol Nonylphenol Ethoxylate - 10 September 2002
• Euro Chlorine Sector Could Face Euro330m in Mercury Costs - 10 September 2002
• Dangerous Recycling Said to be Poisoning India - 6 September 2002
• Computer Recycling Bill Sent to Davis - 1 September 2002
• Canada Accedes to Rotterdam 'Prior Consent' Agreement - 29 August 2002
• Activists Applaud Commitment and Steps Towards Zero Waste at Earth Summitt - 27 August 2002
• Concerns Over Waste Issue Grow with E.U. Calif. Legislation - 20 August 2002
• E-Waste Watch - 19 August 2002
• Thais Curb Trade in Used Electronics - 17 August 2002
• S.F. S.J. Officials Vow to Act in Controlling E-waste - 16 August 2002
• Electronics: NEC Introduces World's First Enviro Friendly PC - 15 August 2002
• Under a Cloud - 14 August 2002
• Singapore Firm Recycling Electronics Waste Finds Gold in Garbage - 13 August 2002
• Toxic Trade Watchdog Calls EPA's Proposal on Electronic Waste Illegal and an Affront to Environmental Justice - 13 August 2002
• EU Member States Reject Plan Requiring Firms to Take Back Own Electronic Waste - 12 August 2002
• Activist Sees CRT Export Loophole - 12 August 2002
• 'Asian Haze' Poses Global Threat - 12 August 2002
• Poisoned Back into Poverty - 4 August 2002
• Technology's Growth Scatters Toxic Leftovers - 3 August 2002
• Well Traveled Trash - 22 July 2002
• State Gets Rubbish Back After 16 Years - 19 July 2002
• Legislation to Set Up Computer Recycling Program - 18 July 2002
• Computer Recycling Bill Focuses on Electronic Waste - 18 July 2002
• The Waste that didn't Make Haste - 17 July 2002
• Computer Waste Legislation to be Proposed - 17 July 2002
• Ireland Halts Waste Shipments in EU Food Scare - 15 July 2002
• Billion PCs Add Up to Just so Much Garbage - 7 July 2002
• Technology's Toxic Trash - 7 July 2002
• Groups Vow to Block Export of New York City Garbage to Caribbean - 1 July 2002
• Rejected for 16 Years Incinerator Ash Gets Pennsylvania Homecoming - 28 June 2002
• Good Riddance Infamous Bargeload of Ashes Finally Being Hauled Away - 28 June 2002
• 16-Year-Old Philadelphia Trash Finally Dumped into PA. Landfill - 28 June 2002
• Philadelphia Ash - 26 June 2002
• Wanderings of Odysseus Pale Compared with those of PA. Ash - 26 June 2002
• Paying to Junk TVs Monitors - 26 June 2002
• EPA Rule Could Increase E-Wast Exports - 25 June 2002
• Incinerator Ash Going Home to Pennsylvania - 25 June 2002
• Mayor Weighs Path to Solve Trash Woes - 25 June 2002
• Mike Mulls Shipping City's Trash to Carib - 25 June 2002
• Full Circle; Well-Traveled Ash will Rest in Peace Near its PA. Birthplace - 24 June 2002
• Costly Victory for Dutch Minister - 19 June 2002
• Shipping Industry Must Strip Ships of Toxic Materials Before Sending Them for Scrapping - 19 June 2002
• Silicon Valley Group Spurs China to Ban E-Waste Imports from U.S. - 16 June 2002
• Ash That Nobody Wants Going Home - 14 June 2002
• China Becoming a High-Tech Dumping Ground - 10 June 2002
• China Clamps Down on Imports of West's Toxic Electronic Junk - 6 June 2002
• China Junks Toxic US PC Junk - 4 June 2002
• EPA: Old Computers No Longer Junk - 3 June 2002
• China Bans Toxic American Computer Junk - 1 June 2002
• Computer Waste a Threat to China's Environment - 31 May 2002
• Mainland Fights Back Over Role as Dumping Ground for the Rich - 31 May 2002
• EPA: Recycle Your Old Computer - 30 May 2002
• China to Crackdown on Smuggling of E-trash - 30 May 2002
• China to Tighten Control Over Import of Electronic Wastes - 30 May 2002
• Dell Partners for PC Recycling - 30 May 2002
• EPA Aims to Reduce Electronic Waste - 29 May 2002
• Talking High-Tech Trash - 29 May 2002
• EPA Urges Recycling Not Dumping Computers - 29 May 2002
• New Basel Guidelines to Improve Recycling of Old Batteries - 27 May 2002
• Taiwan Workers Plead Cancer Case/Link RCA Plant to Disease - 24 May 2002
• Taiwan Will Not Permit the Dumping of Wastes in Solomon Islands - 22 May 2002
• Germany Receives Environmental Award - 17 May 2002
• Warner Promises to Remove Fuel from Ghost Fleet - 18 May 2002
• Australia Blocks Toxic China Feriliser Exports - 9 May 2002
• Asian Businesses New Threat to War-Battered Solomon Islands - 9 May 2002
• Global Alliance Urges Mbeki to Junk Sasolburg Burner - 9 May 2002
• French Toxic Ship Turned Away from Turkey - 9 May 2002
• MOFA Denies Report on Toxic Waste Storage Deal with Solomon Islands - 9 May 2002
• Guiyu: A Grim Recycling Landscape - 8 May 2002
• California is Laboratory for Electronics Recycling - 7 May 2002
• Taiwan to Dump Toxic and Nuclear Waste in War-Torn Solomon Islands - 7 May 2002
• NEMA to Ban Importation of Second-Hand Refrigerators - 1 May 2002
• Recycling Liability Law Troubles Manufacturers - 30 April 2002
• Waste Electronic Parts Need Recycling - 27 April 2002
• Asia's Wind-Borne Pollution a Hazardous Export to U.S. Air - 26 April 2002
• Why Tech Pollution's Going Global - 25 April 2002
• Tokyo to Offer Bay Site to Treat PCBs - 20 April 2002
• Manufacturers Face Bill for Electrical Waste - 11 April 2002
• Electro-scrap Directive: European Parliament Took Big Step for the Environment - 10 April 2002
• EU Lawmakers Make Producers Responsible for Electroscrap - 10 April 2002
• Euro-Trash - 10 April 2002
• Foreign Waste Banned from Entering East China - 10 April 2002
• Russia May Import British Nuclear Waste - 10 April 2002
• Trash E-Trash - 10 April 2002
• "Ghost Fleet" Could Unleash Disastrous Spill in a Storm - 7 April 2002
• The Ghost Fleet: Time Bombs on the James - 7 April 2002
• History of the James River Ghost Fleet - 7 April 2002
• Fighting Nature One Day at a Time - 7 April 2002
• Snags in Ship's Cleanup Show Why so Few are Recycled - 7 April 2002
• European Commission Wants EU to Ratify PIC Treaty - 1 April 2002
• Put Up or Shut Up - 1 April 2002
• China Suspends Mercury Imports Over Poisoning Fears - 1 April 2002
• Hi-Tech Trashing of Asia - March 2002
• Recycling in Tandem - 27 March 2002
• Chamber Welcomes Decision to Adopt Industry Standard - 26 March 2002
• America's E-Bombs are Killing Innocent People in the Third World - 25 March 2002
• Electronics Waste: A Growing Pollution Problem - 20 March 2002
• Nisso Head Gets 4-Year Term for Shipping Waste to Utsunomiya Japan - 19 March 2002
• National Electronics Product Stewardship Initiative - 19 March 2002
• China's Deadly E-junk Trail - 19 March 2002
• EPA to Propose Rule on CRT Disposal; Enviros Already Calling it Insufficient - 12 March 2002
• Japanese Man Jailed for Exporting Hazardous Garbage to Philippines - 12 March 2002
• Accomplice Gets 3 Years for Toxic Waste Export to Utsunomiya Japan - 12 March 2002
• 11 Kinds of Waste Raw Material Restricted From China - 12 March 2002
• E-waste a Growing Problem - 11 March 2002
• Garbage In Garbage Out; Castoffs from the Computer Age are a Financial Windfall for Chinese Villagers. But at What Cost? - 11 March 2002
• Computermakers Facing Pressure to Offering Recycling Programs to Consumers - 11 March 2002
• And Now TV Mountains - 10 March 2002
• Pronk Imposes Precautionary Flame Retardant Ban - 4 March 2002
• Audio: National Public Radio Living Matters on BAN E-waste Dumping Report - 3 March 2002
• Tech Trash Poisons Chinese Villages - 28 February 2002
• Asia is Dumping Ground for Western Electronic Waste - 28 February 2002
• Finding a Home for Household Cyber-Junk - 28 February 2002
• Environmental Chiefs from Three Countries to Discuss Regional Plan to Reduce Lindane - 27 February 2002
• Surcharge Suggested for Scrap Electronics - 27 February 2002
• EU Court in Landmark Waste Shipments Ruling - 27 February 2002
• Toxic Fears Over Old Computers - 27 February 2002
• Computer Cast-Offs Poisoning the Third World - 27 February 2002
• Guangzhou Steps Up Efforts to Keep Out Imported Refuse - 26 February 2002
• Chinese Cargo Ship Carrying Japanese Garbage Turns Back - 26 February 2002
• California Lawmakers Want Recycling of Old Computers 'E-waste' - 26 February 2002
• Toxic U.S. Tech Waste Dumped Abroad - 26 February 2002
• Asia Becomes Dumping Ground for E-waste - 26 February 2002
• High-Tech Trash from West Harming Health Environment in India - 26 February 2002
• Report Slams Export of E-waste to Asia - 26 February 2002
• Recycling Electronics Poses a Health Hazard in Asia - 26 February 2002
• Groups Document Chinese Computer Dump - 25 February 2002
• Computer Dumping Polluting Asia - 25 February 2002
• What Happens to Old Computers? - 25 February 2002
• Report Raps Dumping of High-Tech Trash - 25 February 2002
• Statement of Electronic Industries Alliance Regarding Report on E-waste Recycling in China - 25 February 2002
• Group Exposes America's Dirty Tech Secret - 25 February 2002
• Technology's Toxic Trash is Sent to Poor Nations - 25 February 2002
• Dirty Little Secret of High-Tech Revolution - 25 February 2002
• Much Toxic Computer Waste Lands in Third World - 25 February 2002
• U.S. Dumping High-Tech Trash in Asia - 25 February 2002
• Toxic High-Tech Waste Flows to Asia - 25 February 2002
• Report Says U.S. is Exporting E-waste - 25 February 2002
• High-Tech Toxic Trash from USA Found to Be Flooding Asia - 25 February 2002
• California's Old Computers Pollute Asia Report Says - 24 February 2002
• Hazardous-Waste Issues Still Awaiting Resolution - 21 February 2002
• Shipments of Scrap and Stress Indian Groups Say Steel from Twin Towers is Contaminated - 18 February 2002
•  Denmark Minister Apologises for Illegal Plastic Waste Imports - 12 February 2002
• Greenpeace "Most Wanted" Ship Remains a Thorn in Port's Side - 11 February 2002
• Costa Scraps Riviera - 8 February 2002
• Chinese Breakers Take First VLCC of 2002 - 8 February 2002
• Turkey to Clean Up Breaking Industry - 8 February 2002
• Sharma in a Pickle Over Scrap Deal - 8 February 2002
• India Banks and Breakers Hunt Down Deal Busters - 8 February 2002
• Some Owners Very Reluctant to Reveal Their Scrap Plan - 8 February 2002
• India Faces Toxic Fallout of September 11 Campaigners Say - 7 February 2002
• Anxieties Over Toxins Rise at Ground Zero - 7 February 2002
• US Dumps 30000 Tonnes of World Trade Center Scrap in India - 5 February 2002
• World Trade Center Debris Shipments Worry Environmentalists - 4 February 2002
• About 30000 Tonnes of Scrap from WTC Exported to Chennai - 4 February 2002
• WTC Debris Lands in India: Greens Unions Concerned Over Contamination - 4 February 2002
• US Electronics Recycling Stance Challenged - 1 February 2002
• Greenpeace-Targeted VLCC Sold for Scrap - 30 January 2002
• Witmer Allowing U.S. Companies to Target Northern Ontario for Hazardous Waste Imports - 29 January 2002
• Basel Convention Embraces "Maker to Breaker" Ethos in Scrap Guidelines - 23 January 2002
• Plastic Waste Disposal Guidelines Adopted - 23 January 2002
• Greenpeace Contains Dangerous Pesticides Abandoned in Nepal and Calls on Bayer and Shell to Take them Back - 21 January 2002
• Activists Held in Protest in Protest at Turkey Toxic Ship Dumping - 15 January 2002
• 15 Greenpeace Activists Under Custody - 15 January 2002
• Security Teams Detain 15 Activists of Greenpeace Aliaga - 14 January 2002
• Canadian Government Sued for Banning Lindane - 3 January 2002
• Bangladesh Yard Blast Kills Three - 3 January 2002

Last updated: 3 November 2003