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GKAS 2006 REGISTRATION GOES ONLINE OCT. 1
The next Give Kids A Smile (GKAS) Day, the Association’s annual dental advocacy event, is slated for Feb. 3, 2006. If you plan to join your colleagues in providing oral health care services to children from low-income families, you can register for next year’s event on ADA.org beginning Oct. 1.

Online registration allows the Association to gauge the national success of the program; the data also are of interest to dental societies, the GKAS corporate sponsors, government entities and the media. By registering online, you can request products from GKAS sponsors through Dec. 1. GKAS founding sponsors include

– Crest Healthy Smiles 2010, Cincinnati;

– DEXIS Digital X-Ray Systems, Redwood, Calif.;

– Sullivan-Schein, Melville, N.Y.

This year, more than 40,000 dental team members—including more than 10,000 dentists—registered for GKAS, providing 485,700 children with oral health care valued at $32,561,073. To sign up for next year, visit "www.ada.org/goto/gkas" beginning Oct. 1.

ADA NEWS CONVENTION DAILY
Next month, Philadelphia, the nation’s birthplace and a symbol of America’s heritage and freedom, will host the ADA’s 146th annual session. If you can’t make it to the Pennsylvania Convention Center, you still can keep up with the proceedings through the ADA News Convention Daily online edition on ADA.org.

Updated each day, the ADA News Convention Daily online edition is your source for breaking news on important issues, coverage of meetings, sessions and events and photographs of important happenings. Supplemental materials on key issues and resolutions, candidates for ADA offices and excerpts from speeches fill out this resource.

The online convention daily will be "live" on ADA.org Oct. 6-9 with additional updates as needed. You also will be able to access the annual session coverage via the ADA News Today archive after session is over. Be sure to visit "www.ada.org/goto/adanews" if you won’t be joining us in Philadelphia.

E-WASTE UPDATE
The U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Superfund and Waste Management met in late July to hear testimony on the growing problem of electronic waste in the United States. By some estimates, more than 50 million computers are disposed of each year, all containing harmful elements such as lead, cadmium and mercury.

Among those presenting testimony was Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), who introduced the bipartisan Electronic Waste Recycling Promotion and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 to the Senate in March with co-sponsor Sen. Jim Talent (R-Mo.). If passed, the legislation would offer electronics manufacturers, retailers, consumers and recyclers tax incentives to recycle their electronic waste, including

– an $8 per unit tax credit for companies that recycle at least 5,000 display screens or computer systems per year;

– a $15 tax credit for consumers who recycle their old computers and televisions using qualified recyclers.

The bill also contains provisions stipulating how electronic waste is handled and directs the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to advise Congress on the feasibility of establishing a nationwide e-waste recycling program.

Reported by Joe Hoyle, electronic media editor, "hoylej{at}ada.org".

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