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- A few questions for Jim Puckett:
1. How much does it cost for a company to become certified as an e-steward?
2. If a fee is, in fact, involved, is any of it paid to BAN or Earth Economics, directly?
3. What percentage of the e-stewards provide financial support to BAN or Earth Economics independent of whatever fees that they might pay for certification?
4. What percentage of BAN''s and Earth Economics'' budgets, respectively, is provided by donations from e-stewards? - Reply to this comment
- A few questions for Jim Puckett:
1. How much does it cost for a company to become certified as an e-steward?
2. If a fee is, in fact, involved, is any of it paid to BAN or Earth Economics, directly?
3. What percentage of the e-stewards provide financial support to BAN or Earth Economics independent of whatever fees that they might pay for certification?
4. What percentage of BAN''s and Earth Economics'' budgets, respectively, is provided by donations from e-stewards? - Reply to this comment
- 2) Recycling of plastic is a great idea, expensive and difficult to do. Use less! Demand better options from producers.
Posted by ewaste "
Better yet, DONT HAVE 3 or 4 KIDS per couple and you''d do a hel1 of a lot more for the planet and everything else than recycling 2 pounds of plastic.
EVery new mouth is one more house one more car on the road, another utility and sewer hookup, that much more waste, use, polution, food, water, raw goods needed.
Till there are none ADOPaT don''t breed!!!!!!! - Reply to this comment
- lists most of these same companies as viable environmentally sound destinations for consumers. "
Jim Puckett,Executive Director
Basel Action Network"
Take a flying leap Jimbo, who cares! you "recycling"co''''s are just ripping suckers off- having them do all your sorting, carting to recycling centers and giving you the machines for free, y''''all turn around and RESELL the scrap silver, gold, lead etc at a nice profit on other people''''s work sorting the trash they paid for originally.
I''''d sooner toss the thing in the trash than do the work for YOU to make a profit off. - Reply to this comment
- CBS, That was the most UNFAIR ARTICLE EVER!!! People Please research a little more into the story. THIS IS YELLOW JOURNALISM!!! It was not Excutive Recycling it was a Woman In Vancouver, Canada. I hope this News network will do what''s right to correct this!
Chad
Lakewood, CO - Reply to this comment
- Thanks for that additional info Jim...
So most people understand...I have never met a recycler, collector, processor who wants to pollute!
I have met hundreds! I have been to many of the conferences here in the US, DC, Toronto. They all want to do it right!
Your eStewards list is helpful, now can you help the ones not on your list, to work to become on the list.
You have our attention, you suggest you know what is right, so help us all get funding, design a better model for these operations and lets keep these resources here in the US for our manufacturers to use.
What do we do with the TV''s?
What is in an LCD and how do we recycle it?
where are the toxins in any item?
help!
please!
My employees are looking to me to finish my plans to shift our company from the old way to tomorrows way!
I am looking for investors, partners, guides, anyone who can help us realize these goals!
Sustainable and green, profitable and generous!!
Then I will have honored my Grandfather and Father for their hard work at building our companies. - Reply to this comment
- We All Live Downstream!
1)Air quality in the Pacific NW is starting to be affected by Chinese industry. Sending our trash there will affect us. 2) Recycling of plastic is a great idea, expensive and difficult to do. Use less! Demand better options from producers. 3) Commodities prices are down because the US messed up the world economy with it''s greed. 4) Try Linux. Upgrade for free 5) Most of the info on Free Geek was wrong. freegeek.org has paid employees, and gives away more computers than it sells. - Reply to this comment
- We All Live Downstream!
1)Air quality in the Pacific NW is starting to be affected by Chinese industry. Sending our trash there will affect us. 2) Recycling of plastic is a great idea, expensive and difficult to do. Use less! Demand better options from producers. 3) Commodities prices are down because the US messed up the world economy with it''s greed. 4) Try Linux. Upgrade for free 5) Most of the info on Free Geek was wrong. freegeek.org has paid employees, and gives away more computers than it sells.
Peace! - Reply to this comment
- I finally get to share my personal opinion about the waste generated by those goods our society can''t live with out--including my self; I think that the manufacturers of such goods should own up responsibility! For example: the soda industry should have a recycling process in which all those bottles, cans and what ever else, make it back to their point of assembly.
I think in the long run if these companies face such responsibility enforced by the government, they''ll have to create ways to keep making use of all those materials, not only that but may be even innovation where lots of those toxic elements can be eliminated all together and replaced with friendlier ones...In the same way for the automotive industry, and electronics...
This is, like I said, just a thought from a regular citizen.
I can only hope - Reply to this comment
- So, does the Port of Tacoma have any responsibility in this issue, since they are allowing the transportaion of this e-waste through their port?
The Port of Tacoma operates on it''s own agenda, which has gotten them in "trouble" a number of times. - Reply to this comment
