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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I use the LG Super-Multi, model GGW-H20L, since it can play Blu-ray and HD-DVD, and I have a bunch of titles I love on HD-DVD. LG has a new one now I think that only does Blu-ray but burns at 8X speeds, model BH08.
I also have a standalone LG Blu-ray player. The video quality on my HTPC (with a ATI 4750 HD) is so much better than the stand-alone Blu-ray player its incomparable! It's really quite a big difference. The ATI video card took a minumum of tweaking to color settings to get it vastly superior to the standalone player. I highly recommend it. I've used PowerDVD 8 and ArcSoft TotalMedia, they both work flawlessly. I like ArcSoft better because it can also do HD-DVD (PowerDVD 8 only Blu), and it is integrated right into Vista Media Center! It also does the latest audio formats like TrueHD over analog. I like analog better, it seems to give much better sound than digital especially in music.