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Frustrated with delays in Sacramento, Bay Area officials said Thursday they planned to take matters into their own hands to regulate the region's growing pile of electronic trash.
A San Jose councilwoman and a San Francisco supervisor said they would propose local initiatives aimed at controlling electronic waste if the California law-making body fails to act on two bills stalled in the Assembly. They are among a growing number of California cities and counties that have expressed the same intention.
Environmentalists and local governments are increasingly concerned about the toxic hazard posed by old electronic devices and the cost of safely recycling those products. An estimated 6 million televisions and computers are stocked in California homes, and an additional 6, 000 to 7, 000 computers become outdated every day. The machines contain high levels of lead and other hazardous substances, and are already banned from California landfills (垃圾填理场).
Legislation by Senator Byron Sher would require consumers to pay a recycling fee of up to ＄30 on every new machine containing a cathode (阴极) ray tube. Used in almost all video monitors and televisions, those devices contain four to eight pounds of lead each. The fees would go toward setting up recycling programs, providing grants to non-profit agencies that reuse the tubes and rewarding manufacturers that encourage recycling.
A separate hill by Los Angeles--area Senator Gloria Romero would require high-tech manufacturers to develop programs to recycle so-called e-waste. If passed, the measures would put California at the forefront of national efforts to manage the refuse of the electronic age.
But high-tech groups, including the Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group and the American Electronics Association, oppose the measures, arguing that fees of up to＄30 will drive consumers to online, out-of-state retailers..
"What really needs to occur is consumer education. Most consumers are unaware they're not supposed to throw computers in the trash," said Roxanne Gould, vice president of government relations for the electronics association.
Computer recycling should be a local effort and part of residential waste collection programs, she added. Recycling electronic waste is a dangerous and specialized matter, and environmentalists maintain the state must support recycling efforts and ensure that the job isn't contracted to unscrupulous (毫无顾忌的) junk dealers who send the toxic parts overseas.
"The graveyard of the high-tech revolution is ending up in rural China," said Ted Smith, director of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition. His group is pushing for an amendment to Sher's bill that would prevent the export of e-waste.
What step were Bay Area officials going to take regarding e-waste disposal？
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Taughened Glass: the Solution to Retail Owners' Security Concerns
Taughened glass, which is also called Bastie glass because of the name of the inventor, is a kind of glass that is finely tempered or annealed, by a peculiar method of sudden cooling by plunging while hot into oil, melted wax, or paraffine.
The development and acceptance of taughened glass has undergone several stages. Yet the benefits of this particular kind of glass still remain unknown to a large group of people.
DuPont has done a great job of working with architects and the architectural glass industry to understand, develop and promote the use of taughened glass (safety glass) worldwide. Within the retail environment in particular, architects in all continents are using taughened glass for a diverse range of applications--not only for economic and functional reasons but also for the pure aesthetic delight of using the material.
Yet sadly, the general public in North America is still too often ignorant of the benefits taughened glass can bring--not only in shops but also in offices and homes. The material is still all too often perceived as vaguely "more expensive" and its wide range of benefits remains largely unknown. Sharing the benefits with building owners-from the business community to homeowners--has to be our next major challenge.
National Gate and Glass Corp . supplies storefront glass to retailers throughout North America, from nationwide chains to single outlet owners. However large or small, our customers have similar concerns when it comes to the storefront glass they use with regard to cost, appearance/aesthetics, security and service.
The good news is that in 99.9 percent of cases, we find that the installation of 6 mm+6 mm taughened glass with an interlayer of 0.76 mm Butacite (r) PVB interlayer solves all of these concerns with ease! Taughened glass is an ideal solution for modem retailers in terms of same day installation, security prevention, protection from the UV rays that cause the degradation of store displays and furnishings and the elimination of boarding following damage to the storefront.
Time Is Money.
Everyone in the retail construction value chain, from owners to foremen, are concerned with costs. We are able to address this first concern pretty quickly. In the USA, taughened glass costs almost exactly the same as tempered glass to purchase and install per square meter. In Australia and Europe, it can be significantly cheaper than tempered glass! In the case of breakage, the cost benefits of taughened glass can be seen very clearly; as store owners, managers and loss prevention departments know, time is money! Unlike tempered glass, taughened glass allows stores to stay open in the case of breakage since cracked or broken glass stays in the frame. Smaller locations that are boarded up with plywood can leave customers with the impression that they are closed --and nobody can afford that. It's critically important that everyone knows that you are
Better Looking storefronts
The second major concern is aesthetics. Many of our retail customers located in downtown areas automatically assume that shutters will have to be installed to ensure adequate security after store opening hours. It is always a pleasure for me to see the relief on customers' faces when I tell them about the security benefits of taughened glass and how the material eliminates the need for shutters, allowing much better looking storefronts.
A Real Boost to the Bottom Line
A third concern is security. The loss prevention officers of major retailers understand perhaps better than anyone else the extent to which break-ins and vandalism negatively affect the bottom line. My retail customers tell me that the average cost of a break, in is US ＄ 30,000. This not only includes stole
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