The Fight Against Tech Pollution
News Smith is executive director of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC), a group formed 20 years ago to protest the contamination of groundwater in the heartland of California's high-tech industry. If we were able to get serious about designing...
[April 26, 2002, 11:24]
HP, Dell Scrape A Pass In Green Report Card
News Companies such as Dell and HP were praised for improving recycling efforts over the last year but still have an extremely long way to go according to the annual "report card" of vendor environmental behaviour from the Computer Takeback Campaign...
[May 19, 2004, 17:55]
PC Manufacturers Up Recycling Plans
News That (product) was not designed with recycling in mind," said Ted Smith, executive director of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition. Smith's organisation is part of a coalition that wants to see all electronics makers become involved in the disposal...
[April 23, 2003, 10:43]
Outsourcing Conference Draws Protests
News They also have more relaxed environmental and labour regulations than in the United States and Europe, said a representative of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, one of the speakers at the protest.
[September 17, 2003, 9:25]
Should PC Makers Recycle Wares?
News The Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition is also seeking a phase-out of several toxic chemicals used in the production of computers and semiconductors. Among environmentalists, a Silicon Valley group is leading a campaign to get public support for...
[June 24, 1999, 6:28]
PC Dust 'hazardous' - Report
News Company officials were quick to point out that Dell has prohibited the use of PBDEs in any of its products since 2002, and they said that the PC maker has worked closely with groups such as the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, a backer of the...
[June 4, 2004, 8:30]
Recycle Your Old PCs
News More and more PCs are recycled, but some estimates say that 80 percent of the electronic waste slated for recycling in the US is shipped overseas to be taken apart by low-wage workers, according to the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition.
[April 24, 2006, 12:05]
HP Puts More Effort Into Recycling
News Computer makers have been trying to increase recycling of PCs, printers and other products, in response to regulatory pressures and campaigns by groups such as the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition. Hewlett-Packard said on Wednesday that it will...
[November 13, 2003, 9:10]
Apple's Environmental Record Under Fire
News They have an image of being proactive, but they are being really reactive," said Sheila Davis, who recently took over as director of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition. With Apple shares having more than doubled during the past year, shareholders...
[April 22, 2005, 11:05]
Chipmakers Agree To Sponsor Cancer Research
News It's kind of a day late and a dollar short," said Ted Smith, the executive director of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, a group that has long been critical of the industry. A chipmaking trade group said on Thursday that it would sponsor a far...
[March 19, 2004, 9:00]
Recycling Special Report: A Way Forward
News This doctrine "means extending the legal, moral and financial responsibility of producers," said Ted Smith, executive director of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition , an advocacy group focused on the high-tech sector.
[June 18, 2001, 14:02]
PC Manufacturers Feel Pressure To Recycle
News According to the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC), "e-waste" -- dead computers and other consumer-electronics cast-offs -- is the fastest growing portion of our garbage stream, with consumer-electronics devices also accounting for 40 percent...
[July 7, 2003, 8:01]
Dell Readies PC Recycling Programme
News Everybody seems to be very freaked out about Dell," said Ted Smith, executive director of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition. Dell Computer is getting set to announce a programme to offer PC recycling to consumers.
[May 17, 2002, 10:50]
Dell: The PC Is Still King
News Moderators quickly grabbed the microphone away from Ted Smith, director of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, when he began detailing Dell's poor standing in the group's recently released Clean Computer Campaign report card.
[January 10, 2003, 8:55]
Recycling Special Report: Disposal Is Too Hot To Handle
News What is known is that PCs will leach, can leach and do leach," said Ted Smith of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, which estimates that 40 percent of the lead in landfills comes from consumer electronics.
[June 18, 2001, 14:00]
Old PCs Go To Jail
News Atwater is just the latest and probably the worst" example of inmates being exploited in the name of providing them with job skills, said Ted Smith, executive director of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC), an advocacy group.
[February 16, 2002, 6:31]
Recycling Special Report: Designing PCs For The Environment
News Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition's Ted Smith says those tight time constraints are a big part of the problem. The Green Design Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University is apparently bracing for that reality in this posting on its Web site...
[June 18, 2001, 14:00]
