Vendors look to ease recycling costs on users
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Major vendors including Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Sony are working together to push through a legislative mandate in the U.S. that will make it easier for users to recycle their consumer electronics.
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By Jim Wasserman, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Mar. 2--Pity the full-fledged computer store in a retail era when consumers can pluck their electronics off the shelf, along with shampoo and shoes, at big discount stores like Costco and Wal-Mart.
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The good news about recent proposals from the Justice Dept. [DOJ], regarding the enforcement of intellectual property protection, is that they show the DOJ is committed to recycling.
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TechWeb - Wireless companies are helping consumers become greener by promoting the recycling of old phones, market researcher iSuppli said.
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Enterprise software vendors are having their last hurrah at customer expense.  But not for long.
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OSLO, Norway - Arild Tofte and Kaare Heggdal know that recycling pays, but they weren't quite prepared for the jackpot that a scrapped cash machine contained. It was still full of cash. Enough to buy a house and take a luxury vacation.
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By Martin Hickman  Shoppers are being encouraged to solve the problem of excess packaging by taking direct action and dumping trays and wrappers in their gardens.
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If storage remains free to corporate users, then there is little inclination to economize or improve utilization. Any company's goal should be not only to provide a cross-charging mechanism for recouping costs, but also to incent more efficient usage of storage.
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No current figures exist for how much e-junk is recycled, but industry experts believe it's a sliver of the total. People don't know where to take their used electronics, and toxic components are a mounting problem.
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By Julie Ann Grimm, The Santa Fe New Mexican  Feb. 11--One serious hurdle to an effective recycling program in Santa Fe is the absence of viable commercial pickup.   The commercial rates are so high that few businesses can afford to participate.
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TORONTO (CP) - Ontario residents will likely have to pay more for their televisions, computers and electronic gadgets under a recycling plan now under development.
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EBay Inc. and Intel Corp. launched a recycling program Thursday to motivate Americans to safely dispose of mounting piles of used computers and other electronic gadgets.
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Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) has launched free recycling in several additional  markets worldwide, meeting a timetable set in June to provide free  recycling of any Dell-branded product for consumers worldwide as part of  its global recycling policy.
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Supermarkets must do more to help customers make environmentally-friendly choices, a consumer group says.
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Eighty-five percent of users responding to a recent survey said environmental factors are important in planning IT operations, but only one quarter said they have written "green" initiatives into their company's purchasing processes. Meanwhile, critics of "green IT" say if vendors can sell by making their products appeal to that "feel-good" aspect of the market, then they know they'll get money out of it.
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Office Depot teams with HP to recycle your old electronics gear for free.
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A new initiative seeks to improve old products.