
OAKLAND, Calif. -- The drive to green mobility got a boost into the New Year with news of heightened efforts to produce fuels from a variety of waste products, word that Queen Elizabeth's Bentleys are going green and the launch of an electric vehicle charging network in Northern California.

PURCHASE, N.Y. -- For the first time, PepsiCo has been able to compare year-by-year water, electricity and fuel use for its entire operations.

SEOUL, -- The country hopes to spur job growth and boost its economy by pumping funds into a range of efforts, from making bike tracks to turning garbage into energy.
The Basel Action Network and the Electronics TakeBack Coalition launched the new e-Stewards partnership in November 2008 with 32 electronics recyclers in the United States and Canada that have agreed to refrain from some of the most unhealthy and polluting e-waste practices currently in effect.
The e-Stewards pledge, which is available online, is an independently audited certification that forbids the incinerating or sending to landfill of electronic waste; forbids exporting of e-waste to developing countries; requires recyclers to agree to keep from sending their e-waste to prisons or other forced labor programs for processing; to keeping private data on soon-to-be-recycled computers safe; and to keep accurate environmental data across the supply chain and for demanufacturing facilities.
The new standards set the bar very high for electronics recyclers, but the groups behind the e-Stewards partnership say it's a much-needed step forward.
"Unfortunately today, most of those companies calling themselves electronics recyclers are scammers," said Sarah Westervelt, e-Stewards project coordinator at the Basel Action Network. "They simply load up containers of old computers and ship them off to China or Africa. By choosing an e-Steward recycler, consumers and large businesses are assured that their old computers and TVs will be safely managed and not simply tossed into a local landfill, processed unsafely by prison laborers, or exported to developing countries."
Web Site:http://www.ban.org/pledge1.html