Strides to Stop the e-Waste Tide: 
Progress on e-recycling, a breakthrough with electronics industry giant HP, TCE takes on Congress in 2010

From convincing international electronics companies to take back their TVs to a hard-won breakthrough with industry giant Hewlett-Packard, TCE continues to spearhead statewide and national campaigns to stem the ever-growing tide of toxic electronic waste making its way to dumps at home and abroad. Since our last report, we’ve accomplished a great deal on the e-waste front thanks to your steadfast grassroots support.

This year, we're taking on one of the more sinister problems associated with e-waste: exporting obsolete or broken electronics and the abundance of toxins inside to developing nations for hazardous dismantling or, worse, outright dumping. 
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Letter From the Executive Director

You are amazing. In spite of the economic uncertainty of the last eighteen months, you have come through for the health and environment of Texas. Your generosity towards TCE kept us on track. Thank you. 2009 was the first full year we had offices in Central Texas, the Metroplex and Greater Houston. All are going strong. Together, they reached hundreds of thousands of households, having conversations with newcomers and old-timers. Texans obliged with over 62,000 letters to state lawmakers in Austin, the CEOs of major electronics firms, the Obama Administration and the U.S. EPA.
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2009 Highlights

In concert with dozens of environmental advocates from our five-state region, TCE successfully pushed the Obama Administration to reject the candidacy of a long-time lobbyist for industry polluters and instead appoint a true environmental leader to the EPA Administrator post for Region VI. Dr. Al Armendariz, an engineering professor from SMU, has hit the ground running with effective, science-based environmental enforcement policy.
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Reforming the State Environmental Agency

The next fifteen months present TCE supporters with a once-in-a-decade opportunity to change the way our state environmental agency carries out—or fails to carry out—its mission to protect our health and natural resources. This year, the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission will conduct a comprehensive review of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), analyzing the agency and relaying recommendations to state lawmakers. As the only grassroots organization in Texas working full-time on waste and recycling issues, we have big plans for the Sunset Review...and we need your help. Read the full article here.

Sustainable Grassroots Support

Sustainability is more than just a hip, green buzzword—it’s a way of thinking, a process rather than a product. When you make a contribution to TCE, you not only help sustain the organization and the work we do, you also make a statement that you stand for a sustainable environment and economy, a society in which long-term impacts are greater than the sum of short-term profits. Of course, our success doesn't come from buying Super Bowl ads or pinning our hopes to the tails of donkeys or elephants every election cycle. Our success comes from you. So, this year, we're asking all of our supporters to make a statement on behalf of sustainability with a monthly or quarterly contribution to TCE.

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