Comments on: Killing Trees vs Manufacturing Toxins from Chip http://www.chipdesignmag.com/blyler/2008/03/11/killing-trees-vs-manufacturing-toxins-from-chip/ Just another engineering physicist turned editor Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:07:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: John Blyler http://www.chipdesignmag.com/blyler/2008/03/11/killing-trees-vs-manufacturing-toxins-from-chip/#comment-3900 John Blyler Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:41:29 +0000 http://www.chipdesignmag.com/blyler/?p=77#comment-3900 Good bit of research, Lou. Thx! I'll take a closer look, once my head stops spinning from the flu. I'm querying a few book publishers I know to get their thoughts. Will publish the results in our new "Green Electronic System" magazine, due out in early June. Good bit of research, Lou. Thx! I’ll take a closer look, once my head stops spinning from the flu.

I’m querying a few book publishers I know to get their thoughts. Will publish the results in our new “Green Electronic System” magazine, due out in early June.

]]> By: Lou Covey http://www.chipdesignmag.com/blyler/2008/03/11/killing-trees-vs-manufacturing-toxins-from-chip/#comment-3894 Lou Covey Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:46:59 +0000 http://www.chipdesignmag.com/blyler/?p=77#comment-3894 Here's a report from the state of California that outlines the semiconductor industries efforts to ameliorate toxic waste. http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/PollutionPrevention/upload/SemiconductorReport-2.pdf These were the companies covered: • Advanced Micro Devices • Agilent • Analog Devices • Fairchild Imaging • Intel • Jazz Semiconductor • Micrel • Microsemi • NEC • Novellus Systems • Perkin Elmer • Shell Solar • Sipex • Skyworks • Spectrolab • Vitesse Each company was responsible for a minimum 13 tons of toxic waste production each year. Now add that up and put it into the perspective that flat panel screens product the same waste as semiconductors. And this is just California. Here’s a report from the state of California that outlines the semiconductor industries efforts to ameliorate toxic waste.

http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/PollutionPrevention/upload/SemiconductorReport-2.pdf

These were the companies covered:

• Advanced Micro Devices
• Agilent
• Analog Devices
• Fairchild Imaging
• Intel
• Jazz Semiconductor
• Micrel
• Microsemi
• NEC
• Novellus Systems
• Perkin Elmer
• Shell Solar
• Sipex
• Skyworks
• Spectrolab
• Vitesse

Each company was responsible for a minimum 13 tons of toxic waste production each year. Now add that up and put it into the perspective that flat panel screens product the same waste as semiconductors.

And this is just California.

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