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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 98 10:29 WET From: FRIEDMAN.FRED@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV (Fred Friedman) Subject: Re: Recycling home electronics by the enterprise?
November 18, 1998
What you seem to want - your English, pardon my saying so, is not good - is What electronics and white goods do companies take back to recycle?
If that's your question, the answer these days, is most of them do to some extent have a take back program.
Hewlett Packard, Apple Computer, Compaq Computer, Westinghouse, General Electric all have such programs. Many more firms do too.
European firms have longer experience and more mandates to fulfill than do US firms. But frankly, to compete, and to show their 'environmental responsibility' US firms have been on the move in this direction too.
The periodical Business and the Environemnt by Cutter Information Corp documents some of the individual efforts.
It also publishes a Product Stewardship Advisor which is more directly on the subject.
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