Key documents
Health Care Without Harm Environmentally Preferable Procurement Guidelines for Electronic Products
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Purchasing Guidelines for Environmentally Preferable Computers offers suggested questions for going beyond EPEAT.
Download questions (.pdf) (323KB)
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Equipment End-of-Life Management Program Summary questionnaire requests details of manufacturer end-of-life programs.
Download questionnaire. (.pdf) (259KB)
GAO Report on Recycling Electronic Waste
EPA Needs to Better Control Harmful U.S. Exports through Stronger Enforcement and More Comprehensive Regulation. GAO Report 1044 was released August 2008.
Download GAO E-waste report 08/08
or go to http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d081044.pdf
Fifth annual computer report card
The Report Card is issued annually by the Silicon Valley Toxic Coalition’s Computer TakeBack Campaign (CTBC) to encourage consumers to leverage their buying power to foster greater corporate responsibility to protecting public health, worker safety and the environment. The Report Card analyzes computer companies’ published standards, compares and measures the environmental qualities of electronic equipment and grades the overall environmental performance of companies.
Fifth annual computer report card, May 2004 (.pdf) (338 KB)
More on SVTC's campaigns and projects
Electronics with mercury
A summary of electronic products with mercury and specific mercury content, developed by the Electronic Industries Alliance.
Download 2-page summary (.pdf) (14 KB)
Cathode ray tubes with lead
A summary of lead content in television and computer screens by size of screen developed by the Electronics Industries Alliance.
Download 2-page summary (.pdf) (14 KB)
Brominated flame retardants in dust on computers: The case for safer chemicals and better computer design
In the first nationwide tests for brominated flame retardants in dust swiped from computers, the Computer Take-Back Campaign (CTBC) and Clean Production Action (CPA) found these neurotoxic chemicals on every computer sampled. The highest levels found were a form of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) called deca-BDE— one of the most widely used fire retardant chemicals in the electronics industry.
Download 43-page report (.pdf) (502 KB)