World – new alliance plans to tackle mountains of e-waste

A new UN-led alliance will work out global scrapping guidelines to protect the environment from mountains of electronic trash such as computers, phones and televisions, the group said on Tuesday. Reuters reports that three UN agencies, 16 firms including Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Philips, several government bodies and universities said they …

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China – Hong Kong seeks more space for its “dynamic” waste

Every three months a helicopter flies over Hong Kong‘‘s restricted border region near Shenzhen, the special economic zone in China‘‘s southern Guangdong province. Its purpose is not to survey the dramatic landscape of the closed area – which after five decades of enforced isolation has evolved into one of south …

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World – new alliance plans to tackle mountains of e-waste

A new UN-led alliance will work out global scrapping guidelines to protect the environment from mountains of electronic trash such as computers, phones and televisions, the group said on Tuesday. Reuters reports that three UN agencies, 16 firms including Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Philips, several government bodies and universities said they …

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