## NewsBits
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has partnered with the **Michigan Recycling Coalition to explore options for end-of-life management of e-scrap**, pharmaceuticals and plastic packaging. MRC will conduct research on available options through a Community Pollution Prevention grant from MDEQ and will issue findings later this year.
A new **electronics recycling facility** being built outside of Taiwan's capital, Taipei, will be **made entirely out of recycled materials**, reports the [_BBC_](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21606349). Ceilings will be constructed out of plastic left over from CDs and DVDs and walls will be fashioned out of glass fiber from computer motherboards.
**E-Cycle Washington** [collected](http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/swfa/eproductrecycle/docs/Collections.pdf) 3.49 million pounds of covered electronics in February and **7.5 million pounds in just the first two months of the year**. While this volume represents a 19.5 percent increase over the same period in 2012, approximately 93 percent of the weight of material collected during this period were CRT televisions and computer monitors.
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