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As the pace of technology increases, the amount of toxic electronic waste is piling up at home and abroad.

We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.

Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

If the EPA cannot or will not act to halt the toxic e-waste trade to developing nations, then Congress should take action.

When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.

There's a value in used electronic equipment, and currently, there are small, domestic recyclers that process this equipment safely. But they have a hard time competing with facilities overseas that have few, if any, environmental and safety standards.

The Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS), which controls the living environment on shuttles and on the International Space Station, doesn't have the luxury of disposal: discharging trash into space has long been judged a bad idea.

Producing clean energy from non-recyclable waste is an important part of my future vision for family company Visy Australia.

I believe that most people would like to cooperate in reducing waste, but to encourage them, the national policy should be clear, well advertised, and consistent. Even within Greater London, there is a huge discrepancy between council policies. I believe a national waste management initiative should be designed and implemented by government.

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?