CES 2006: the greenest gadget show yet?

Next week I'll find out just how comfortable my dorky Earth shoes really are at the Consumer Electronics Show, the world's most sprawling orgy of all things new and digital in the planet's capital of excess and unsustainability, Las Vegas. CES will devote a full day to clean technology, which I missed in the past. Green Saturday "will focus on the consumer electronics industry's efforts in ecodesign, recycling and reuse." A panel on electronic waste a day earlier will feature speakers from the EPA, Sony, Best Buy, and Scientific American. Products launched at CES in the past included the VCR, CD player, camcorder, plasma TV, HDTV, and Xbox. Will any eco-friendly technologies launch next? Even if so, I'll be on the lookout for how America's largest tradeshow handles its own phenomenal amount of waste. Thousands of exhibitors from hundreds of countries will likely dismantle and discard their display booths, stages, and press kits as usual. How much recycling will happen? I'll try to keep you posted.

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[green LA girl]

Darling -- Where are ya? Did you disappear with 2005?

[Miz J]

Thanks for this insightful commentary on the serious need for a greener technology. With technology evolving daily, I can only imagine the levels of waste it is also producing. Where is my old platic metal hunk of a junk computer? Wasting away in a garbage dump, polluting the soil and destorying the local greenery? With the advancements made in high tech, why have we not produced a higher form material to match?