Excerpt from Greener Computing, 1 September 2009
'SYDNEY, Australia — Four regional Australian councils have adopted a ban on sending electronic waste to landfill, in the hopes that the move will force the federal government to finalize a national recycling scheme.
The four councils -- Mosman, Manly, Warringa and Pittwater, which together cover all of Sydney's northern beaches -- have enacted a no-landfill policy effective in January 2010, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
The move, which comes in advance of the expected announcement of a national e-waste policy, will forbid the collection of computers and home electronics at curbside collections; the four councils intend for the devices to be collected in the forthcoming - but as-yet-undefined - national recycling system...
According to Australia's Environment Protection and Heritage Council (EPHC), of the 16.8 million devices discarded in the country in 2007-2008, only 9 percent were recycled, 88 percent were sent to landfill, and the remaining 3 percent were exported...'
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