Thousands of pounds of discarded computer monitors, hard drives, printers and piles of tangled cables sit in bins at Global Ewaste Solutions' headquarters in Plymouth waiting to be sorted. Staff sift through it all to determine what's salvageable to resell. Those items are wiped clean of data and repaired before going up for auction, and the rest is recycled. Right now, the company only works .
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Amid growing amounts of discarded packaging materials, lawmakers ask: Who should pay to deal with it and how to slim the pile? A bill before the Minnesota Legislature puts that onus on packaging companies.
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As lawmakers around the world weigh bans of cancer-linked "forever chemicals," many manufacturers are pushing back, saying there often is no substitute