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You’re Invited: Nokia’s Mobile Musings, The Age of E-Waste
What has happened to your old Nintendo Game Boy? What did you do with your last printer? How many old phones do you have sitting in your drawers?
You may have heard about electronic waste and most likely in your lifetime you will accrue e-waste when you purchase new electronic gadgets. But, what do we know about the lifecycle of an electronic gadget, or where they typically end up when we’re all finished with them?
Join ecofabulous’ Caitlin Bristol as she moderates a conversation with sustainability experts from high-tech and see how they address recycling programs now, and their thoughts on the future of e-waste.
Hosted by Nokia, the event will offer a special mobile phone recycling take back, so if you’ve got old phones you don’t want, bring ‘em with you so they can be recycled in an environmentally sound manner.
Location: Nokia Silicon Valley Office
200 S. Mathilda Ave., Sunnyvale
Date: April 28th – Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm
Moderator:
Caitlin Bristol – Creative Director, Ecofabulous
A writer, designer, and sustainability strategist, Caitlin Bristol manages content and leads creative for ecofabulous.com. Since joining ecofabulous, the site has been listed as a top online resource for green living by Martha Stewart’s Body+Soul magazine, listed as #15 on Women’s Health magazine’s list of “The 100 Most Useful Sites on The Web,” and has been featured in Dwell, InStyle, Traditional Home, and California Home + Design, among others. Developing an editorial program with a fresh, witty voice that holds steadfast to a stringent “eco” criteria, Caitlin also works on custom media campaigns, strategic programs and interactive experiences for ecofabulous with companies such as eBay, O Organics, Sprint, Method, Yahoo, Levi’s, and Electrolux.
Bristol holds a BA in English and Political Science from Santa Clara University and recently completed a graduate program in Sustainable Design at UC Berkeley. After growing up in the Pacific Northwest, she traveled to over twenty countries, including India, Australia, and South Africa where she gained a deep appreciation of nature’s beautifully efficient, waste-free, regenerative cycles. When she’s not working towards the seamless integration of sustainability and high design, she can be found exploring the Bay Area on two wheels.
Panelists:
Craig Boswell – Co-Founder and President , HOBI International
Craig Boswell is co-founder and President of HOBI International, Inc., a leading asset management and electronics recycling company serving Fortune 1000 clients across North America. In this capacity, Craig has been extensively involved in the design, development, and deployment of electronics demanufacturing and recycling techniques. Craig’s background includes nine years experience as an electrical engineer for Texas Instruments, Inc. As a member of Texas Instrument’s engineering staff, Craig managed electronics design projects and was extensively involved in development and deployment of electronics manufacturing techniques. Craig holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, a M.B.A. from the University of Texas at Dallas and is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Texas. In addition to his managerial duties, Craig is HOBI’s chief industry consultant on demanufacturing, design for disassembly, and reverse logistics programs. Craig has published and presented numerous papers on the recycling of electronic products and the keys to designing more recyclable products.
Annie Lescroart – Senior Manager, Sustainability Communications, e-Bay
Annie Lescroart has spent her career helping companies and nonprofits articulate and communicate the ways in which they make the world a better place. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, she spent nearly five years working for communications firms in New York and Boston. There, she consulted with clients that ranged from the United Nations to Harley Davidson to Pfizer, helping them build and execute meaningful communications platforms for their causes and social commitments. Now happily back in the Bay Area at eBay, she is a card carrying member of the nearly 300,000-member Green Team, where she focuses her efforts on digging up the great green stories that lie within the eBay universe and finding new ways to tell them to the world.
When she’s not working, you can probably find her on a hiking trail somewhere, cooking in her tiny but effective kitchen, or on a plane.
David Conrad – Sustainability, North America, Nokia
As Head of Sustainability-Markets for Nokia North America, David Conrad is responsible for the integration of global strategy with regional programs, creating environmental awareness programs targeted to influence consumers and trade partners. His role includes development of systems for compliance assurance with as well as shaping legislation. His team works internally to interface and collaborate with internal teams to drive sustainability in the product lifecycle. Conrad’s team also works to promote Nokia’s recycling efforts and provides consumers free and easy take back and recycling of retired devices and accessories. The team works jointly to ensure the global efforts support the creation of a culture intended to influence both Nokia’s employees as well as our nearly one billion consumers to make more sustainable choices. Additionally, Conrad works closely with Marketing to increase visibility of Nokia as a global leader in Sustainability in products and operations. Conrad leads the North American endeavor. Nokia is a leader in CSR and environmental performance, and is currently ranked number one by Greenpeace and has been ranked by Dow Jones Sustainability Index as the Most Sustainable Technology Company in the World.
Rob D’Arcy – County of Santa Clara, Department of Environmental Health
Rob has a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies and a master’s degree in Public Administration. He has been with the county of Santa Clara Hazardous Waste Recycling and Disposal Program since 1998 and the Hazardous Materials Program Manager of the last seven years. In the nine years with the program he was responsible for the design construction and permitting of three household hazardous waste facilities. Resident and small business participation in the program has doubled since 1998 and the program now serves several hundred businesses and over 25,000 residents each year. Rob has developed special program components, such as the Universal Waste Recycling Partner Program to offer cost effective solutions for small businesses and residents throughout the county Rob is also a strong supporter of Producer Responsibility and believes industry take-back is the most constructive mechanism to achieve sustainability and reduce the local government burden of hazardous waste management. In addition, he has managed over $5 million in grants awarded by the California Integrated Waste Management Board. Rob is the current chair of the California Integrated Waste Management Board and the President of the California Chapter of the North American Hazardous Materials Management Association.
