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Article: What happens to those old computer monitors?(electronic waste management)(Advertisement)
- Article from:
- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- November 7, 2005
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Often, when a company relocates to a new office location or expands into a new area, it takes the opportunity to invest in new computers and other electronics, leaving behind a trail of what is now coming to be known as "e-waste," or unwanted old electronics. This e-waste poses a number of problems--it is difficult to store, illegal to throw in the trash, and often contains ingredients that are toxic to the environment.
Fortunately, the State of California put groundbreaking legislation info effect earlier this year that is helping pave the way for solutions to the e-waste problem. By collecting small recycling fees whenever a computer monitor or television set ...