One year into its campaign, makeITfair, a coalition of environmental and human rights organisations, receives promising commitments from the electronics industry. The campaign urges companies to translate these commitments into concrete actions.”makeITfair welcomes these reactions…
The American NGO As You Sow is successful in its effort to push Best Buy, the largest US electronics retailers to offer free take back of electronic waste in more than 10 of its US…
Following a commitment made to AYS by Target Stores last fall, three more giant retail chains will begin to reduce their use of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) in their products. As You Sow’s Associate Director,…
A year after the launch of the “High Tech – No Rights?” campaign, Bread for All, the Swiss Catholic Lenten Fund, and Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) publish a new study on working…
Amsterdam, 20 May 2008, The Greenpeace scientific report “Playing Dirty”, released today, reveals that the world’s most popular game consoles, Nintendo Wii, Sony PlayStation 3 Elite (PS3) and Microsoft Xbox 360, tested positive for hazardous…
Unfortunately, ‘recycling’ of e-waste often means the crude dismantling of e-waste under extremely hazardous conditions. To help address this growing global problem, SVTC is teaming up with Chintan Environmental Research Action Group on a project…
The June issue of the Labor Studies Journal includes an article by Challenging the Chip contributor, Dr. Anibel Ferus-Comelo. Based on primary research in Bangalore, hailed asthe “Silicon Valley of India” and Silicon Valley, California,the…
The unnecessary use of potentially toxic fire retardants in household electronics enclosures stopped, for now.The majority of IEC 62368 improves existing standards for electronic product safety; however Clause 7, a part of the standard which…
Uncontrolled electronic waste recycling threat to children’s health Current EU policy on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) highlights the need for greater recycling of electrical and electronic equipment to limit the total quantity of…
Ghana’s Environmental Protection Agency, (EPA) now appears to be acting to address the problems of e-waste that has been confronting the country.The guidelines, according to the EPA, would prevent the dumping of such gadgets which…