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Electronics
Electronics Topics
Public-Private Initiatives
Below are partnerships and initiatives that strive to achieve a shared responsibility model for managing electronics. They involve manufacturers, retailers, state and local governments, recyclers and environmental and community groups as key stakeholders.
Rethink Initiative 
- industry, government, and environmental organizations are working together
to find new users for idle computers and electronics, and responsibly
recycle unwanted products.
National
Electronic Product Stewardship (NEPSI) - a multi-stakeholder dialogue
aimed at developing a national financing system to help maximize the reuse
and recycling of used televisions and personal computers.
Take
It Back Network - a partnership between local government, retailers,
haulers, recyclers, electronics manufacturers, and consumers in the Pacific
Northwest.
Product
Stewardship Institute - coordinating government agencies in a national
dialogue with manufacturers to discuss electronics waste.
NOTE: Many electronics manufacturers and retailers such as [all links ] Panasonic,
Sony,
Sharp,
Lexmark,
Xerox,
Hewlett
Packard (HP), Dell,
Apple, Epson
, Gateway,
Staples,
Office
Depot, Best
Buy, have initiatives that reflect a shared responsibility approach
to managing electronics—either via greener design or asset recovery
and recycling programs.