{"57520":{"#nid":"57520","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New ways to curb old tech waste","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENPR - Marketplace\u003C\/em\u003E - March 24, 2009\u003Cbr \/\u003EA House committee is looking today at old electronics waste, which the EPA says old is growing two to three times faster than any other kind. This is largely because no one knows what to do with it. Caitlan Carroll reports... Valerie Thomas teaches industrial engineering at Georgia Tech.. She says industry has done a good job of making technology less toxic. But: Valerie Thomas: There\u0027s been less progress in making products easier to recycle and there\u0027s been really very little progress in increasing the recycling rates.  \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/marketplace.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2009\/03\/25\/am_recycled_tech\/\u0022\u003ERead more\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2009-03-24 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:25","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-03-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-03-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"57458","name":"ISyE External News"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}