{"id":4,"date":"2005-04-23T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-23T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/2005\/04\/23\/e-waste-update\/"},"modified":"2022-12-30T11:43:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T16:43:47","slug":"ewaste-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/ewaste-update\/","title":{"rendered":"eWaste Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/iaas\/3815\/rackspace-and-digital-realty-break-ground-on-green-data-centre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-111367 size-medium\" title=\"E-Waste Update\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Green-servers-1.jpg?resize=150%2C85&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"eWaste Update\" width=\"150\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Green-servers-1.jpg?resize=150%2C85&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Green-servers-1.jpg?resize=75%2C42&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Green-servers-1.jpg?w=620&amp;ssl=1 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>220 million tons of eWaste, old computers are discarded in the U.S. each year (US EPA).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3 years is the average computer lifespan (<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"National Safety Council\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nsc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener noreferrer\">National Safety Council<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>632,000 pounds of mercury is expected to be generated by <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Electronic waste\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electronic_waste\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia noreferrer\">e-waste<\/a> by 2007 (Basal Action Network\/Silicon Valley Toxic Coalition).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>500 million computers that will be obsolete by 2007 (Basal Action Network\/Silicon Valley Toxic Coalition).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(The Numbers, CIOInsight, April 2005)<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on <a class=\"broken_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rb48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ralph.bach.14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rbach48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>220 million tons of ewaste is discarded in the U.S. each year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3281,1576,158,14,64],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green","tag-3281","tag-epa","tag-ewaste","tag-green","tag-recycling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118421,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/118421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}