How are CIOs protecting the environment?
This was selected as Best Answer Nepal: Great question! E-waste is only part of the picture, though, of how CIO’s can reduce harm to the environment. Let me answer both your specific question and the more broad one. For eWaste, many countries, US states, and even cities have eWaste proposals in various stages of becoming law. The common thread that is emerging is producer responsibility: the company that makes the stuff needs to be responsible for it at the end of its life. In some cases, companies pay a fee to a government recycling program. In others, the companies take the products back themselves. One very good source of information about these regulations is EIATRACK. All of the big equipment producers have product take-back programs; I suggest you speak with your particular vendors. The problem of eWaste is also mitigated somewhat by a regulation that went into effect in 2006 in the European Union, and which is emerging as a common platform for laws in other places. Called “RoHS”
