Ewaste Not, Want Not On Earth Day every year many people, including corporate citizens, devote themselves to recycling and reducing, along with identifying items they can repurpose. Companies, such as Dell and Microsoft, two producers of materials that eventually become ewaste, have joined forces with an electronics recycling program run by Goodwill Industries International. Goodwill reports that the program has diverted about 96 million pounds in electronics from landfills.
Assisting in a similar effort are office supply stores Office Depot and Staples that offer their own sorting and recycling services for used electronics. Apple has even jumped on this bandwagon, allowing customers to turn their old products in to retail locations when they buy something new.
There are so many opportunities to reduce ewaste. Make a list of how the popular technology manufacturers are already trying to reduce ewaste. Would starting a company that helped people locate used computers or other technologies for reuse be a worthwhile venture? Why or why not?
Create a list of new alternatives any company could adopt to reuse, recycle, and reduce ewaste.