As much as $60 million could be made available to study end-of-life electronics over die next diree years, if backers of a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives have their way. House Resolution 1580, introduced by Rep. Bart Gordon (D-Tennessee), would authorize the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to distribute grant money to organizations performing research on e-scrap reduction, recycling equipment development and demonstration projects, totaling $18 million for the fiscal year 2010, and $20 million and $22 million for the two years after that.
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