Calls to recycle Christmas waste
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With up to one billion cards and six million trees set to be thrown out, the government calls on Britons to recycle this Christmas.
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By Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Mar. 8--In an ideal world, every time a new TV set or computer monitor was purchased, an old, junky one would be recycled -- rather than being dumped from Skyline Parkway or tossed into a rural ditch or even forgotten in a basement.
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The Salvation Army may be forced to scale back its help for those in need if Londoners don&#39;t start tossing more toonies into its kettles.
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School pupils are going all out to convince their elders that if everyone started composting their waste it would stop millions of tonnes going to landfill.
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One of the holiday&#39;s season most well-known sounds is back, but some stores are limiting where Salvation Army volunteers can ring their bells.
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Texas proposal would force vendors to accept and recycle used equipment.
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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 Valerie Rowell  Those looking to clear out some old electronics before spring hits are in luck.  Columbia County will offer another Electronics Recycling Day from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in the parking lot of the Evans Government Complex on Ronald Reagan Drive.
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(InfoWorld) - Measures to reduce the millions of tons of electronic waste generated each year by manufactures of computers, mobile phones and other consumer electronic products will be the focus of a United Nations-sponsored conference in the capital of Kenya. Delegates from about 120 governments gathered in Nairobi on Monday to begin week-long talks on how to reduce the use of toxic substances, such as lead, cadmium and mercury, found in PCs and cell phones, and to promote programs for recycling and re-using as many components as possible. The U.N. estimates that up to 50 million metric tons of "e-waste" are generated worldwide every year, representing more than 5 percent of all municipal solid waste. In the U.S. alone, as many as 20 million PCs are thrown out every year. A good chunk of that waste ends up in Africa and other developing countries, according to the U.N. Every month, more than 100,000 disregarded computers are entering the Nigerian port of Lagos alone, said U.N. Under-Secretary General Achim Steiner in a speech. Local experts estimate that up to 75 percent of the used PCs, TVs and phones sent from developed countries are unusable and end up in the landfills of developing countries, where the items are often burned, releasing toxic fumes and leaching chemicals. On the table at this week's meeting are proposals to encourage manufacturers to take more responsibility for their products, from the design stage through the supply chain to final disposal. In a speech, Sachiko Kuwabara-Yamamoto, executive secretary of the Basel Convention, which monitors hazardous waste, pointed to a partnership with several mobile phone manufacturers and operators, including Nokia Corp, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB and Vodafone Group PLC to develop programs for recycling and re-using the millions of mobile phones now sold worldwide every year.
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LOCAL SHOPS TAKE PART IN TV APPEAL ISLE of Man residents are being urged to dig out old clothes for Blue Peter and the British Red Cross.
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Incurable romantic Stuart Conway has spent the last 10 years throwing messages in a bottle into the sea off Britain -- but now his local town council says it's time to recycle.
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In some places, holiday givers are coming up with creative alternatives this season.
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Two senior bishops led calls on Tuesday for people to cut back on carbon, rather than the more traditional chocolate and alcohol, for Lent this year.
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Households could be charged per bag of rubbish as part of the government's plans to boost recycling.
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Environmentalists built a giant Christmas tree out of garbage in Beirut on Thursday to pressure the government into cleaning up Lebanon's waste problem.
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Comedian Ed Byrne encourages people to reduce their waste this Christmas as he talks about the amount of cards sent each year that aren't recycled
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This holiday season's retail conundrum: to silence the bells, or let them ring. As the Salvation Army kicks off its annual red-kettle program today, a growing number of retailers, from Best Buy to Target, are banning Salvation Army bell ringers from their doors -- to avoid having to choose between competing charities and out of concern for customers, they say.