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E-Waste Focus - Prison Labor and Export

An international network of activists seeking to prevent the globalization of the toxic chemical crisis.

This February 2002 report and video exposed that much of the obsolete electronic taken to "dirty recycling" operations in China and India. This report documented that toxics from electronics were poisoning the air, water and land in developing countries.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons conceded that its own staff and inmate workers in its computer recycling enterprises were exposed to harmful heavy metals above allowable safety limits.

E-Waste Focus - Producer TakeBack Recycling

A partnership between Dell and Goodwill for recycling e-waste in Texas.

Environmental Organizations

An alliance of the groups that lobby at the State Capitol on environmental issues.

Founded by Lois Gibbs who fought toxic contamination in her Love Canal community in the 1970s, CHEJ works with local groups to win environmental justice is from the bottom up through community organizing and empowerment.  Center for Health Environment and Justice

Sustainable Energy and Economic Development Coalition   SEED Coalition

TCE Fund's sister organization, Texas Campaign for the Environment, focuses on grassroots organizing, advocacy and lobbying efforts.

Local chapter of a national alliance of local state and federal resource professionals. Has lots of information on President Bush's environmental record as Governor of Texas.  TX Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility

Landfills and Recycling Focus

Blog of the Fort Bend and Brazoria County group opposing the expansion of the BFI landfill in their area.  Citizens Against the Blue Ridge Landfill Expansion

Environmental engineer Dr. Fred Lee has been working since the 1960's on landfills and has written extensively on many topics.  Dr. Fred Lee's Scientific Research on Landfills

TCE Fund E-Waste Focus

Environmental Working Group tested umbilical cords for a variety of chemicals, including the toxic brominated fire retardants (BFRs) used in electronics. Researchers found an average of 200 chemicals used in industrial processes, including 32 of the 46 BFRs the group tested for.

Information on the policy of Extended Producer Responsibility and other strategies to make manufacturing processes less toxic.