[frgeek-michiana] FW: The latest electronics recycling news
- From: "Otto J. Schlatter" <jschlatter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:28:52 -0400
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From: Resource Recycling [mailto:newsletter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 2:13 PM
Subject: The latest electronics recycling news
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July 11, 2006
Welcome to the E-Scrap News <http://www.resource-recycling.com/esn.html>
electronic newsletter. This issue contains five stories.
In this issue
MISSOURI ATTORNEY GENERAL FILES SUIT AGAINST E-SCRAP PROCESSOR
PC SHIPMENTS BEAT FIRST-QUARTER PROJECTIONS
PC-BOARD VALUE SLIDES
PRELIMINARY AGENDA FOR E-SCRAP 2006 IS AVAILABLE
FREE DIRECTORY LISTING FOR ELECTRONIC SCRAP PLASTICS BUYERS
Missouri Attorney General files suit against e-scrap processor
A quaint piece of land located in the Ozark Mountains of Southern
Missouri stands as a reminder of the dark side of e-scrap recycling. In
2000, Elmer Dillard purchased land in Echo Valley, about 10 miles north
of Rolla. Dillard began collecting electronic equipment, charging users
$5 to recycle a computer monitor. Little did the government agencies,
schools and other businesses that dealt with Dillard know their
discarded electronic equipment was being dumped in Echo Valley rather
than being recycled.
Dillard then defaulted on his mortgage payments and the land was
repossessed by the previous owners, who estimate more than 10,000
computer monitors are strewn across the property as well as other
electronics.
Another e-scrap processor, Midwest Recycling (Chicago), has set
up shop and is operating a warehouse on the property to in-part
remediate the dump site left by Dillard as well as accept new electronic
equipment for proper recycling. However, the remediation project was not
making the progress that State Attorney General Jay Nixon had expected.
He has filed a lawsuit against Robert Sooter, the present owner of the
property, as well as Jon Roberts, the owner of Midwest Recycling.
In the suit, Nixon is asking the court to order the defendants to
stop accepting e-scrap, transport all current e-scrap and any other
discarded materials to a licensed disposal facility, immediately come
into compliance with the Missouri Solid Waste Management Law and the
Missouri Hazardous Waste Management Law, and pay fines for violations.
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PC shipments beat first-quarter projections
The growth in the shipment of PCs outpaced projections in the first
three months of 2006. IDC (Framingham, Massachusetts), a market research
group, projected PC shipment growth at 11.8 percent, which was surpassed
as growth in PC shipments topped off at 12.6 percent in the first
quarter. IDC expects the 2006 average PC shipment growth will be 10.8
percent, up just slightly from the annual projection posted in March at
10.5 percent.
The outlook for 2007 was also readjusted to 11.7 percent and 2008
shipment growth is projected at 10.6 percent. Overall, IDC anticipates
global shipments to top 230 million this year, nearly 257 million in
2007 and to continue growing to 285 million in 2008.
Though shipments are expected to continue growing through 2010,
growth will be slower than has been experienced in recent years, where,
for example, unit shipments increased by 16 percent in 2005. Overall
revenue from PC shipments is expected to grow steadily by three to five
percent annually through 2010.
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PC-board value slides
The intrinsic value of recyclable PC boards in June 2006 was $3.27 per
pound, 12.3 percent below the value the previous month but 51.4 percent
above the value a year earlier. The average price in the six months at
$3.17 was 48.8 percent above the level in the 2005 period.
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Preliminary agenda for E-Scrap 2006 is available
More than 20 speakers will be presenting cutting-edge analysis on the
latest developments in legislation, collections, recycling and other
original research at the E-Scrap 2006 Conference.
What are some of the biggest design obstacles to recycling
computers, laptops and computer monitors? Why are some of the biggest
cities in America not providing e-scrap recycling? What's the latest on
state and provincial electronics recycling programs? If these are
questions you have asked, then you will want to attend this year's
conference to hear the answers.
To view the preliminary agenda for this year's exciting
conference being held October 18-19 in Austin, Texas, visit
www.e-scrapnews.com .
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Free directory listing for electronic scrap plastics buyers
Resource Recycling (Portland, Oregon), the publisher of this newsletter,
is publishing a directory of buyers of e-scrap plastics. Inclusion in
this directory is free. Please send company name, location, phone
number, fax number and email address to plastics@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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