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From Concept to Consumer: How to Turn Ideas Into Money
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From Concept to Consumer: How to Turn Ideas Into Money

by Phil Baker
October 2008
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
3h 41m
English
Pearson
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Appendix B Products and the Environment

This is an amazing time for new gadgetry of all sorts—from flat-panel TVs to printers, from digital cameras to computers. But the rapid advances bring about much shorter product lives. Many of us are on to our fourth printer or second flat-panel TV.

This means that we’re replacing products more frequently and inadvertently creating a huge stream of electronic waste (e-waste). We’re scrapping 400 million electronic products each year in the United States alone. Where do all the old products go that are not passed down to others? Only 13% are recycled, while 87% end up as waste.

That 87% represents 2.3 million tons of e-waste being dumped into landfills or going into incinerators to be burned. E-waste contains ...

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