The Environmental Protection Agency amended its administrative complaint against EarthEcycle to include allegations the electronic equipment recycler improperly exported and handled e-waste containers shipped to South Africa, the agency said Monday. read more »

Amid growing protests that Africa continues to be a dumping ground for old electronic equipment, Uganda has outlawed imports of used computers and Zambia is moving to stem the tide of imports of old technology. read more »

The Basel Action Network (www.ban.org ">BAN) is reporting another instance of electronics collected as part of a charity recycling event that have allegedly been redirected into trash shipments meant for developing countries. read more »

The company says it is involved in two recycling initiatives, aimed at recovering and recycling “end-of-life” IT hardware in SA. read more »

Backyard recyclers of electronics waste in developing countries use open fires and chemicals to extract precious metals, then dump the hazardous byproducts. read more »

Experts from a variety of disciplines shared strategies and possible solutions to reducing and reclaiming electronic waste (e-waste) at “Green Materials and Processes for Managing Electronic Waste” at the TMS 2009 Annual Meeting. read more »

US state Indiana became the first state to pass a major electronics recycling law in 2009 as Gov. Mitch Daniels signed HB 1589 into May 13, making Indiana the 19th state to pass a law creating a statewide e-waste recycling program. read more »

SEATTLE (AP) — PC maker Dell Inc. formally banned on Tuesday the export of broken computers, monitors and parts to developing countries amid complaints that lax enforcement of environmental and worker-safety regulations have allowed an informal and often hazardous electronic-waste recycling industry to emerge. read more »

The number of reported illegal shipments of hazardous waste from European Union countries to developing countries is increasing and better reporting of legal shipments needs to be made to understand the problem, a new report warns. read more »

There’s been a lot of reporting about the growing flow of dead PCs, monitors and electronic junk from the US to China. read more »

The theme of China’s annual National People’s Congress taking place this week – the proceedings of which remain highly secretive beforehand – has been largely an economic one. read more »

Recently, Vital Wave Consulting, of TCO fame, did a in-depth Landscape Analysis of Low-cost Computing Devices. In that report, they came away with an amazing conclusion: read more »

While this phenomenon is a global one, the problem in Pakistan is of a greater magnitude as it has become a dumping ground of a host of obsolete computers and its accessories which are shipped to the country. read more »

Untidy management of electronic wastes or e-waste arising from the unbridled importation of disused computers, handsets and television sets into the country has drawn the ire of the Computer and Allied Products Dealers Association of Nigeria (CAPDAN). read more »

Nigerian authorities are calling for sub-regional efforts to stop the increasing menace of e-waste dumping in West African countries. read more »