The materials he uses in his creations are often technological cast-offs from family and friends, or garbage scavenged from electronics recycling facilities.
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Electronics recycling is a national problem that needs a national solution.
Prindiville was involved in the passage of the Maine EPR electronics recycling law, and has been working on bringing EPR to the United States since 2003.
In 2006, Natural Resources Council of Maine teamed up with Hewlett Packard to pass the first EPR electronics recycling law, and since then 23 other states have followed suit.
Even as Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson was unveiling the federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, consumers in New York City were carting old appliances to an electronics recycling drive in Coney Island.
For years now, CEA has been working in partnership with local, state and federal governments, as well as interested non-governmental organizations and other industry advocates to educate consumers on the availability and accessibility of electronics recycling locations.
Currently there is a groundswell of real US electronics recyclers (not exporters that call themselves recyclers) that are demanding a US law (the Responsible Electronics Recycling Act) for toxic electronic waste comparable to what the rest of the world is already doing under the Basel Convention rules.
Rather than limiting itself to Twitter, Integrate PR partnered with local green electronics recycling business Compucycle to get the message out via longer blog posts, and they connected with other local businesses looking to recycle their own electronics responsibly and engage the broader Houston community in doing so.
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The fund goes back to recyclers and collectors, who are paid a subsidy based on the amount of electronics they bring to a recycling plant.
The lack of a coordinated, low-cost and convenient collection system has made it difficult to implement effective recycling programs for consumer electronics.
In fact, about 18 months ago we launched our innovative eCycling Leadership Initiative and set the Billion Pound Challenge, a goal of recycling one billion pounds of electronics annually by 2016.
As for recycling, the 9, 500 tonnes of electronics Apple says it has recycled since 1994 is puny given the amount of equipment the firm sells, says Ms Al-Hajj.
Electronics should be recycled responsibly no matter the state or political jurisdiction in which the recycling is done.
For metals such as hafnium and indium, recycling is the only way to extend the lifetime of critical sectors of the electronics industry.
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