REBORN - The Afterlife For E-Waste
Australians love their electronics. Digital TV is coming, computers are getting faster and secretly, we all want the new Green Apple Mac. But what happens to those much-loved items we leave behind? Or the ones that end up in the bin and on the nature strip?
We’ve teamed up with our friends at the Total Environment Centre, to launch REBORN – The Afterlife for Waste. It’s a national campaign designed to hassle Peter Garrett and other Environment Ministers to introduce a proper electronic waste (e-waste) recycling scheme in Australia.
E-waste in Australia is growing three times faster than ordinary household waste. So far, we’ve sent over 200 million items to the tip. That’s a lot of electronics.
We want manufacturers to take responsibility for their electronic products, through self-funding ‘Take Back’ schemes and to fund a recycling scheme.
Imagine: you would drop off your old gadgets at a designated point or your local council would provide a collection. It would not only help us recover the energy and resources used to make the original product, but would also reduce pollution and create jobs.
It makes so much sense, even industry is with us on this one.
The only thing standing in our way is government. And government can be swayed by the voice of the people.
Are you in?
Great! Take a look at our REBORN website. Email Peter Garrett and let him know you support a 'Take Back scheme for e-waste.
Meanwhile, check out the latest buzz on this campaign, below.
Green group welcomes breakthrough on electronic waste
Thursday, 5 November 2009
Environment Victoria today congratulated the federal government on its decision to introduce a national television and computer recycling scheme.
Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett...
moreGreen group says the beverage industry is “frothing at the mouth”
Monday 2 November, 2009
Environment Victoria has today refuted claims by Fosters, Coca-Cola and Lion Nathan that a national container deposit scheme would be too expensive.
Environment...
moreToxic TVs, computers must be recycled, say green groups
Monday, 18 May 2009
Environment Victoria and the Total Environment Centre (TEC) today launched a campaign and website to call on Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett to introduce a national electronic waste...
moreIndustry, community kick-start computer recycling campaign
Wednesday, 13 September 2006
The Let's Do IT! Alliance has issued a deadline for all state governments to implement national safety-net regulations by 1 January 2007 for computer recycling or face calls for individual...
moreUrgent action needed on computer recycling laws
Thursday, 24 August 2006
An alliance of recycling companies, local councils and environment groups call for urgent government action to make computer manufacturers take responsibility for their obsolete products.
The...
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Dust off those old gadgets and get recycling
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Let's be honest...
It's going to cost money. Get used to it.
Part of what we do here at Environment Victoria is meet with politicians, their advisors and government bureaucrats.
It’s how we atone for our sins.
When we meet with them, we make sure they hear what’s...
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