Comments on: School District of Philadelphia, among other e-waste polluting developing nations

By: Technically Philly » Biggest tech community stories we covered in 2009 | Covering the Community of People Who Use Technology in Philadelphia.

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:53:14 +0000

[...] School District of Philadelphia, among other e-waste polluting developing nations After PBS Frontline broke that computers from the School District of Philadelphia had appeared in a Ghananian e-waste landfill, we followed up with several updates. We reported first that the school district had ordered a probe into its computer recycling program. Budding reporter Stephen Zook, who was at the time attending classes in the African nation, filed an in-depth update from Ghana, Technically Philly’s first global byline. Fox29 even followed up with the school district and interviewed Technically Philly reporter Christopher Wink about the situation. [...]

By: E-waste Watch Ghana

E-waste Watch Ghana — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:38:19 +0000

Clearly, something needs to be done about the shipments of e-waste from the US and Europe to Ghana. Europe and the US can’t continue to look the other way knowing that all of their e-waste is affecting poor communities all over the world.

E-waste Watch Ghana

http://www.facebook.com/ewastewatchghana

By: Technically Philly » School District e-waste investigation three months later: no reported progress | Covering the Community of People Who Use Technology in Philadelphia.

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:02:08 +0000

[...] of Agbobloshie’’s children make a living looking for metallic scraps to be sold, that at least one printer from the School District of Philadelphia was found. It was shipped here as part of the growing practice of e-waste from wealthy nations being brought [...]

By: Brief Fox 29 appearance discussing e-waste « Christopher Wink

Brief Fox 29 appearance discussing e-waste « Christopher Wink — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:36:13 +0000

[...] Technically Philly reader spotted it and sent it our way, and we ran with it. Writing the first local story on the matter and then pushing on the district to announce an investigation. That last larger story got a fair [...]

By: Technically Philly » Shop Talk: School District of Philadelphia launches probe into its computer recycling program | Covering the Community of People Who Use Technology in Philadelphia.

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:31:26 +0000

[...] after a PBS Frontline documentary camera spotted the hardware and Technically Philly made repeated followup inquiries, the district has announced it will launch [...]

By: Christopher Wink

Christopher Wink — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:56:43 +0000

It’s an interesting point. We’re going to stay on this story.
-cgw

By: Steven Feldman

Steven Feldman — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:52:05 +0000

This doesn’t need to happen in Philadelphia. I work with a local organization: Nonprofit Technology Resources. We take in donated computer equipment, refurbishing what we can for reuse in the community and passing the rest to local recyclers that do local processing.