Kao's Noble Mission on E-Waste

Waste Clearance London-After almost twenty years in the software business with top companies like Oracle and Hewlett-Packard, James Kao became weary by the amount of waste develop when people began to replace their electronic stuff for latest ones.

Enraged with technologies such as computers, television and other stuff from US buyers that goes to dump sites in China, Africa and other countries.

Kao started the Green Citizen company that gathers and organizes, discards old automated gadgets in the Bay Area. The company make sure that the devices are either reprocessed into raw materials, repaired, overhauled or resold.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Green Citizen company will get a this holiday season will bring a new batch of electronic surplus to the part of the 2.4 million tons seen each year.

"The holiday period is the biggest buying time for most consumer electronics, and it absolutely results in more e-waste," said Barbara Kyle, national coordinator of theElectronics TakeBack Coalition, a recycling advocacy group.
"When it comes to recycling, it's an afterthought," said Kao, 55, who has also founded two software companies. "All the energy is going to how do we get the next revenue from the new best gadget, and there is never a thought to how to get it back."
While Green Citizen is trying to offset gadget waste, Kao said it still isn't a match for a consumer culture that encourages people to seek the latest and greatest technology. About 80 percent of U.S. electronic waste ends up on container ships and then ditched in developing countries, where companies hire workers to extract the core minerals without any environmental or worker-safety oversight, he said.

"It's going to get worse and worse," Kao said. "Initially I tried to fight it, but you can't."

Texas cheerleaders were told No Bible verses on signs

KOUNTZE, Texas News (AP) - Some Southeast Texas cheerleaders have been told to stop putting Bible verses on banners for high school football games.



The Texas Association of School Boards this week advised the Kountze (koontz) Independent School District not to allow such signs.



Superintendent Kevin Weldon contacted the association after the Freedom from Religion Foundation notified him that a resident complained about the signs.



Weldon then told parents that student groups are not allowed to display religious signs at school-sponsored events. Weldon says the ban includes run-through banners at football games.



Cheerleader Macy Matthews says no school money was used and the signs weren't made on school property.



The conservative Liberty Institute on Wednesday said banning religious speech on student-made signs is discriminatory.



Kountze is 85 miles northeast of Houston.