SVTC Mission Statement

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SVTC Mission Statement

• SVTC envisions a sustainable world where a
  healthy environment is a right, rather than a
  privilege. To bring about this vision, we work
  for the empowerment of people locally, nationally
  and globally. We are a diverse, grassroots
  organization committed to the practice of social
  justice and multi-racial democracy.

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High Tech Impact on the Environment

• In the birthplace of high-tech, Silicon Valley,
  24 of the 29 sites listed on the National
  Priorities List (Superfund Sites) for clean up of
  contaminated soil and water were caused by
  high-tech companies.
• Water use by high-tech is among the highest of
  all industrial sectors, with one facility in new
  Mexico using 1.6 billion gallons/year and another
  in Arizona using 1 billion /year.

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• From 1987 to 1993 US EPA reported that 177 tons
  of toxic chemicals were released into the air by
  just one high-tech facility in California.
• More than
• 700 compounds used to make one computer work
  station
• 12 million computers amounting to more than
  300,000 tons of electronic junk are disposed
  annually

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Environmental Health Perspectives Sept. 1999
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Health and Global Expansion of High-Tech

• " Professionals have invariably commented on the
  rapid pace of change in tools and materials and
  on the fact that adequate toxicological
  assessment of chemicals almost never proceeds
  their introduction into manufacturing settings

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Why We Need the Precautionary Principle

• The pace of change is quickening 3-4 years
  ago, a typical schedule of a new technology was
  6-8 years. Executives are now demanding the
  schedule be compressed into a 2-3 year time
  frame

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Why We Need the Precautionary Principle

• Engineers are not evaluated nor rewarded on
  their ability to understand new or unusual
  health hazards Unfortunately, the opportunities
  for professionals to be involved before these new
  processes arrive at the manufacturing floor are
  being diminished

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• Global High-Tech Production is Undergoing the
  Largest Industrial Expansion in History

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Moores Law
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High-Tech Global Expansion Forecast

• Next 5 years industry 851 billion to 1389
  billion (10 growth rate)
• Semiconductor industry 132 billion to 275
  billion (16 growth)
• Semiconductor equipment industry 26 billion to
  45 billion (12 growth)
• Materials industry 19 billion to 33 billion
  (12 growth)

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New Fab Construction

• 127 new fabs in planning construction
• Total to exceed 115 billion
• 1 billion each
• 300 mm fabs may double the cost
• 200 mm to 300 mm fabs 14 billion
• Largest industrial transition in history

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Toxic Components in Computers

• Lead and cadmium in circuit boards
• Lead and barium in monitors
• Brominated flame retardants on printed circuit
  boards, cables and plastic casing

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Toxic Components in Computers

• Poly-vinyl chloride (PVC) casings
• Mercury switches, flat screens
• Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in early
  capacitors and transformers

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• Printed circuit boards contain heavy metals
  such as antimony, silver, chromium, zinc, lead,
  tin and copper. According to some estimated
  there is hardly any other product for which the
  sum of the environmental impacts of raw material,
  extraction, industrial, refining and production,
  use and disposal is so extensive as for printed
  circuit boards.
• -CARE conference, Vienna 1994

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300 Million Obsolete Computers by 2004

• Plastic 4 billion lbs.

Lead 1 billion lbs.
Cadmium 1.9 million lbs.
Chromium 1.2 million lbs.
Mercury 400,000 lbs.
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Amount of E-WasteCalifornia
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Recycling Costs California
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Disposal Cost California
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Total Cost of E-Waste California
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Piles of E-Waste
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Burned E-Waste
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WEEE

• Recycling does not include incineration
• Historical waste included
• Hierarchy in waste management
• Prevention
• Re-use
• Recycling and recovery
• Environmentally safe treatment and disposal

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Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment
Directive (WEEE)

• Phase out by 2004
• Lead
• Mercury
• Cadmium
• Hexavalent chromium
• Halogenated flame retardants
• PBBs
• PBDEs

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WEEE

• Recycling does not include incineration
• Historical waste included
• Hierarchy in waste management
• Prevention
• Re-use
• Recycling and recovery
• Environmentally safe treatment and disposal

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Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment
Directive (WEEE)

• Phase out by 2004
• Lead
• Mercury
• Cadmium
• Hexavalent chromium
• Halogenated flame retardants
• PBBs
• PBDEs

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WEEE

• Full producer financial responsibility for
  creation of
• collection systems
• treatment systems
• recovery systems
• disposal systems

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Electronics Take it Back!Platform

• Financial Responsibility
• Infrastructure Development
• Stop Hazardous Waste Exports
• Taxpayer relief
• Community Re-investment
• Internalize Costs
• Recycling Goals

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Make it Clean

• Adopt the Precautionary Principle
• Phase-Out Hazardous Chemicals
• Proper Handling of Hazardous Materials
• Design for the Environment
• Closed-loop recycling
• Zero Waste

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Fair Labor Practices

• Protect Workers
• Fair Pay
• Right to Organize

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• E-Waste Contraction Alternatives That Promote
  Environmental Economic Sustainability
• Promoting Environmental and Economic
  Sustainability in Municipal E-Waste Contracts

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Check List of Best Practices

• Support Extended Producer Responsibility
• Request Proof of Pollution Liability Insurance
• Require vendor to certify end- markets and track
  e-waste through the product recycling chain
• Require provisions for equipment

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Check List of Best Practices

• Request the vendor and the vendors
  subcontractors adopt environmental management
  standards
• Avoid Prison Labor Support local job creation,
  recycling technology investments and recycling
  business development
• Require provisions for equipment
• Conduct a site visit of the vendors facility

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Soesterberg Principles

• Electronic Sustainability Commitment
• Each new generation of technical improvements in
  electronic products should include parallel and
  proportional improvements in environmental,
  health and safety as well as social justice
  attributes.
• Adopted by the Trans-Atlantic Network for
• Clean Production, May 16, 1999