Ninety chargeless and acceptable GREENspot e-waste declivity locations: a lot of Bay Area association charge drive no added than 5 afar to cautiously actuate of their old TVs and added electronics.
San Jose, CA (Vocus/PRWEB ) May 6, 2008 -- ASL Recycling's GREENetwork connected to abound during April with the accession of 19 GREENspot e-waste declivity locations, bringing the absolute amount in Northern California to 90. Now a lot of association can acquisition a chargeless abode to actuate of their anachronistic electronics abutting to their home--in a lot of cases aural 5 miles. As chump acquaintance of these chargeless and acceptable adjacency locations builds--especially back the GREENetwork's Earth Day attack to animate humans to acquisition their GREENspot area endure month--hundreds of association are visiting a adjacency GREENspot location, consistent in about four actor pounds of e-waste accepting absent abroad from bounded landfills so far, this year.
We ambition to accomplish it as simple to recycle an old apparatus as it is to buy a new one What we apprehend from consumers is that they ambition to do the appropriate affair and actuate of their e-waste responsibly, but they're anxious about their claimed abstracts or how the e-waste is accepting recycled. When you baddest a GREENspot you can be abiding that you're alive with a acclaimed e-waste collector. Unlike added recyclable waste, there is no 'blue bin' agnate for curbside accumulating of e-waste, and so, until recently, a lot of humans didn't apperceive what to do with it. ASL Recycling is alteration that by establishing a statewide arrangement of GREENspot e-waste declivity locations, and by orchestrating locally focused accessible acquaintance campaigns. Californians can appointment www.aslgreenspot.com to acquisition a adjacent e-waste declivity location.
"We ambition to accomplish it as simple to recycle an old apparatus as it is to buy a new one," said Carey Levine, carnality admiral of sales and business at ASL Recycling. "What we apprehend from consumers is that they ambition to do the appropriate affair and actuate of their e-waste responsibly, but they're anxious about their claimed abstracts or how the e-waste is accepting recycled. When you baddest a GREENspot you can be abiding that you're alive with a acclaimed e-waste collector."
19 new GREENspot e-waste declivity locations opened in April
This month, 19 new GREENspot e-waste declivity locations were accustomed in Northern California, bringing the absolute to 91 statewide. The new locations added to the GREENetwork in April are accessible as an attachment.
What to recycle, and why
E-waste acclimatized at GREENspot declivity locations includes TVs, corpuscle phones, audio-video components, computer equipment, bake ovens, cyberbanking accessories from offices and labs, and more. These items are potentially baneful to the ambiance and by allotment to recycle them, Californians can advice alter e-waste from landfills. All GREENspot declivity locations augment their e-waste to ASL Recycling's state-approved plants, which use an environmentally affable e-waste recycling process.
Where to recycle e-waste
A complete account of ASL GREENspot declivity locations is accessible here.
E-waste and the law
E-waste, which includes TVs, monitors, computers, corpuscle phones, and added old electronics, is the fastest-growing chic of solid decay in the United States. California is arch the nation with its Electronic Waste Recycling Act, the state's e-waste recycling legislation. The state's Department of Toxic Substance Control has declared that video affectation accessories are chancy decay and are covered by the Electronic Waste Recycling Act. This agency it is actionable to abandon the afterward accessories in domiciliary and business trash:
-- Cathode ray tube (CRT) accessories (including televisions and computer monitors)
-- LCD desktop monitors
-- Laptop computers with LCD displays
-- LCD televisions
-- Plasma televisions
-- Portable DVD players with LCD displays
-- Gaming Devices and consoles
Many added cyberbanking devices, admitting not covered by the Electronic Waste Recycling Act, could be advised chancy decay and should not be alone in the approved trash.
About ASL Recycling and the GREENetwork:
ASL Recycling is committed to accouterment consumers and businesses with the easiest, a lot of accessible, and a lot of trusted e-waste recycling affairs in the country. Every month, ASL Recycling prevents hundreds of bags of e-waste from accepting dumped into bounded landfills by accession old electronics and advancing it for recycling. All actual accustomed at ASL's advanced bulb is dismantled: harder drives are crushed, abstracts are sorted and again beatific to smelters that transform e-waste into advertise goods. To become allotment of the GREENetwork, appointment http://www.aslgreenetwork.com.
Contact:
Tim Cox
ZingPR
tim @ zingpr.com
650-369-7784
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