Last Year's E-Waste Drive

E-Waste Drive March 28th 9am-3pm

Parking Lot #39, LBJ Library

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E-Waste Mission

We are currently planning an Austin-wide e-waste (electronic waste) drive to be held on Saturday, March 28, 2009.

"Electronic waste, or e-waste, is electronics equipment that isn't properly recycled. Computers, cameras and cell phones are filled with highly toxic materials, like lead, mercury, cadmium and brominated flame retardants. To make matters worse, much of oure-waste is recycled (often illegally) overseas using sub-standard methods that do more harm than good." http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/background-e-waste

"Of the 2.25 million tons of TVs, cell phones and computer products ready for end-of-life (EOL) management, 18% (414,000 tons) was collected for recycling and 82% (1.84 million tons) was disposed of, primarily in landfills." http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/conserve/materials/ecycling/manage.htm

By contributing to the drive, you are assisting in the preservation of our finite resources, as well as preventing health hazards which often occur as a result of improper electronic waste disposal.

This event will be two-fold:

1. Collection point on March 28, 2009, advertised to entire Austin community
2. Inter-Organizational Competition

Want to find out more about e-waste? Check out this doc with more links: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddv6rv3z_228pfntqfm

Supporting Organizations

Goodwill Computer Works

http://www.austincomputerworks.org/

Student Engineering Council

http://www.engr.utexas.edu/sec

Cockrell School of Engineering

http://www.engr.utexas.edu/

The University of Texas at Austin

http://www.utexas.edu/