Retailers, Government Encourage E-Waste Recycling
As the holidays approach and consumers get new electronic equipment, there are several options to recycle the old stuff.
Kwame Payne is eagerly preparing the Best Buy store in Golden Ring for the holiday shopping season. The big box electronics store will be full of the latest TVs, computers, smart phones and other electronics when customers pour in when its doors open at midnight after Thanksgiving for “Black Friday.” But, go in the back of the store, and you could find VCRs, tape decks, bulky TVs and dot matrix printers. All of those older electronic items have been dropped off as part of the store’s “e-waste” recycling program. Nationwide, Best Buy recycled—free of charge—more than 75 million pounds of e-waste in 2010. Since it pledged in 2009 to recycle 1 billion pounds of e-waste by 2014, Best Buy has recycled 300 million pounds. “As people get new TVs…
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