Corporate Governance : Activists

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- LG Electronics and Waste Management will partner to open more than 160 recycling centers across the country to handle masses of unwanted electronics.

Beginning next month, the companies will launch e-waste recycling centers in all 50 states with the goal of locating a center within 20 miles of 95 percent of the population. Users can drop off LG, Zenith and Goldstar brands for free, and pay a fee for other brands.

"By recycling used, unwanted, obsolete or damaged electronic equipment, useful materials such as glass, metals and plastics may be recovered for reuse in other products," Patrick DeRueda, president of WM Recycle America, said in a statement. "Reuse minimizes the amount of waste disposed, while also reducing the amount of raw materials extracted as well as energy required to make new materials."

Eleventh-hour demands from Exxon-Mobil and the toy industry are threatening our top-priority product safety reform law. In 2007, more than 45 million toys and children’s products were recalled because of dangerous magnets, unsafe levels of toxic lead and choking hazards. In response, both the House and Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation to reform and strengthen the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). Now, special interest demands to remove or weaken key reform provisions are preventing the bill from reaching the president.

Click here to read more about the CPSC Reform Bill.

Please click here to sign a letter to our congressional leadership telling them to stand up to ExxonMobil and deliver a toy safety bill that will truly protect our kids!

An anti-globalisation campaign group has asked the Swiss authorities to investigate claims that global food giant Nestle hired an employee of Securitas to spy on the group at its private meetings.

According to the group Attac, the person attended its meetings between the end of 2003 and mid 2004, at a point when it was working on an anti-Nestle book that criticised the company's position on genetic engineering and other key public policy issues.

Nestle has said that it worked with the security firm in order to
ensure the safety of its staff during a G8 summit of world leaders, but had done so within the law.