EDN Innovator Fern Abrams discusses the cons of green measures

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If recycling was profitable it wouldn't be a problem. In the mean time the best thing to do is to send old electronics to dumps. We can mine the dumps if the scrap ever becomes profitable.

I know the negative always makes better press. But the solution to the e-scrap issue is proper recycling and resultant reuse of the harvested materials again and again. How about some focus on the solution. What I would like to see is an industry focus and press on proper recycling, who is doing it, how it is done, what are the best practices and how to raise the recycling the bar globally. So that all e-scrap recycling around the world keeps all material inputs to the electronic devises in the market to be reused over and over and over again.

Suzanne- while I agree with Fern that further restrictions are likely unnecessary and counter productive, I disagree with your point on what is driving increased e-waste. Granted, the replacement of lead in interconnects can lead to some reliability issues, it is unfair to say say that electronic devices "are far less reliable" than before RoHS leading to dramiic increase in e-waste. In general, product reliability is engineered to meet the market requirements. While there have been some documented cases of lead-free solder joint issues (xbox comes to mind, although inexperience with replacements and required compensating design played a role), the increase in e-waste is driven primarily by consumerism and the rate of technology change (EOEM marketers play a role). I finally got rid of my VHS player during a recent move, not because it didn''t work, but because I don''t have a use for it - I gave it to Goodwill in hopes that someone may have a use for it. I also gave away a perfectly good up-converting DVD player to my son, as my PS3 with blueray is my primary player (which by the way is on most of the time, is RoHS compliant, and so far perfectly reliable). The fact is that it is the average consumers desire for the latest gadgets and newest systems (fed by marketeers) that is driving the e-waste problem. This is further fed by Wall Street and EOEMs shareholders that reward sales volumes and resulting profits. This is poised to explode as the populations of China, India etc. have more disposable income and fall into the same consumerism trends. Unfortunately, I can offer little in the way of solutions other than promote better general understanding of the full lifecycle impacts of products and their use, from raw materials to end-of-life disposition. Better informed buyers can make a difference that Wall Street will notice. While the practices of Greenpeace and other NGOs may be somewhat unsavory at times, they are raising awareness. If they could channel the effort into better collaboration with EOEMs and public institutions to address the more fundamental problems rather than expanding their list of "bad stuff", the electronics industry could avoid dealing with further costly regulations and focus on what they are good at- innovation and healthy competition