The percentage of electronics at the end of their lives which were recycled.
The EPA found that the percentage remained consistent from 1999-2005. Even as recycling rates went up, the amount of electronics reaching end of life outpaced the increase, leaving the figure static. (source: EPA, July 2008)
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Really... no matter how much it costs... what happens if Blu-Ray is a failure? I think it is a really bad idea on Sony's part to build a system that is has a optical drive in it that might not even be adopted... basically Sony is using the PS3 to sell Blu-Ray to the masses... that is just dumb... how good is the gaming machine going to be??? So far the biggest hype around the PS3 is the drive... we have already seen with the 360 that we don't need TONS of room to create great games... even the good games still to come will easily fit on a standard DVD... The only thing you need all that space for is FMV and who cares about that in games? The realtime movies created with the games engines themselves don't require a ton of storage... they are just scripts that run in the engine...
Look at the UMD's... how many companies are ever going to make something that uses UMD's? None? So if you buy them for a PSP that is the only thing they will ever play in... there is a danger of that happening with Blu-Ray or HDDVD... why build a machine around something that may not survive past a few months after its release?