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Article

7 Mar 2007

Author:
Alister Doyle, Reuters

New Alliance Plans to Tackle Mountains of E-Waste

A new UN-led alliance [called StEP (Solving the E-Waste Problem)] will work out global scrapping guidelines to protect the environment from...electronic trash…[StEP involves] 16 firms including Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Philips...[Ruediger Kuehr…who will head a secretariat of the StEP, said]"There's an urgent need to harmonise approaches to electronic waste around the world,"…[because] e-waste...often releases toxins if incinerated...