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The three-year-old company that offers instant incentives for cell phone buyers to trade in their old devices has just landed a $35 million investment from Kleiner Perkins, and is working to expand its partnerships with Sprint and Verizon.
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The wireless carrier has set a series of ambitious goals regarding its own end-of-life electronics, as well as those it sells to individuals, and is taking a lifecycle approach to the e-waste challenge that could shift the entire industry.
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While Facebook talks a good game about energy efficiency and its in-house green efforts, Greenpeace has steadily taken the company to task about relying on coal to power the world's most popular website.
by Marc Gunther
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HP's effort to turn end-of-life print cartridges into new cartridges is an admirable innovation, and also highlights how other companies in other industries can begin to implent their own closed-loop systems.
by Cody Sisco
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The effort, launched with big-name companies that include Panasonic, Best Buy, Sony and Toshiba, would triple the amount of e-waste recycled in 2010.
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Sustainability gives Best Buy the vehicle by which it can engage its 180,000-strong workforce and stay competitive, according to CEO Brian Dunn.
by Marc Gunther
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A new report from Fujitsu surveys four countries' maturity of green IT practices -- from responsible procurement to applying IT to larger sustainability goals -- and finds the U.K. leading the pack, though all countries show room for improvement.
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In a ranking of 596 cell phones' environmental impacts -- and the social impacts of their manufacturers -- several firms stand out, while BlackBerrys take all of the last place scores.
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With the iPhone now available on Verizon, eBay hopes to help stem the e-waste tide of unwanted AT&T-based iPhones by upping the amount of money it offers for smartphone sales through its new 'Instant Sale' service.
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The latest round of the saga between the social network and the environmental group has Greenpeace urging Facebook to swear off coal-powered energy by Earth Day.
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On the eve of the opening of the massive CES trade show, the industry association has published its second sustainability report, highlighting successes industry leaders have made across electronics' lifecycle.