What are electronics companies currently doing to address concerns about electronics recycling?
The high-tech industry has been a leader in eco-design practices-creating products out of environmentally-friendly materials, using efficient designs that require fewer materials and maximizing reusability and recyclability. Most leading manufactures now have explicit DfE (Design for the Environment) guidelines. Implementation of these guidelines, published by the EPA, ensures that products use the minimal amount of the most benign and recyclable materials and they are constructed to be easy to disassemble. In addition, nearly all major high-tech manufactures and some retailers have also voluntarily established take back and recycling programs. To date, the high-tech industry has recycled several billion pounds of electronics recycling.
