With 100 chargeless GREENspot e-waste declivity locations now available, a lot of Bay Area residentsneed drive no added than 5 afar to cautiously actuate of their old TVs and added electronics
San Jose, Calif. (Vocus/PRWEB ) July 22, 2008 -- Just six months afterwards launching, ASL Recycling's GREENetwork has developed to cover 100 GREENspot e-waste declivity locations in California. ASL Recycling is one of the better state-approved recyclers and continues to aggrandize the ability of its GREENetwork to accomplish it simple for Californians to off-load their e-waste. As chump acquaintance of these chargeless and acceptable adjacency locations grows, hundreds of association and businesses are visiting a adjacency GREENspot area anniversary month, consistent in seven actor pounds of e-waste accepting absent from bounded landfills this year.
What we apprehend is that consumers ambition to do the appropriate affair and get rid of their e-waste responsibly, but they're anxious about the aegis of their claimed abstracts or absolutely 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 beneficiary that is allotment of the ASL GREENetwork. The growing arrangement of GREENspots agency that a lot of Bay Area association now accept one abutting by. For the nine Bay Area counties, 87 percent of households are amid aural 5 afar of a GREENspot, and 96 percent are amid aural 10 miles.
Percent households amid 5 afar or beneath from a GREENspot
San Francisco canton - 100%
San Mateo canton - 98%
Santa Clara canton - 97%
Alameda canton - 95%
Contra Costa canton - 95%
Marin canton - 68%
Sonoma canton - 56%
Carey Levine, carnality admiral of sales and business at ASL Recycling, wants to accomplish it chargeless and acceptable for Californians to cautiously actuate of their e-waste. "What we apprehend is that consumers ambition to do the appropriate affair and get rid of their e-waste responsibly, but they're anxious about the aegis of their claimed abstracts or absolutely 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 beneficiary that is allotment of the ASL GREENetwork."
Carey's e-waste blog: http://greenster.typepad.com/zerowaste/.
Additional GREENspots in the pipeline
In the endure two months, 11 new GREENspot e-waste declivity locations were accustomed in Northern California, bringing the absolute to 100 statewide. Next month, GREENspots are advancing to Southern California. New locations afresh just added to the GREENetwork:
Casey Moving Systems, Atwater
Teen Challenge, Campbell
Cardinale Moving and Storage, Castroville
Casey Moving Systems, Ceres
Teen Challenge, Concord
Shred-It, Foster City
TOMRA Pacific, Fremont
Galt Recyclers, Galt
TOMRA Pacific, Napa
Cummings Moving Company, South San Francisco
Casey Moving Systems, Stockton
What to recycle, and why
Unlike added recyclable waste, there is no 'blue bin' agnate for curbside accumulating of e-waste, and a lot of humans don't apperceive what to do with it. ASL Recycling is alteration that by establishing a statewide arrangement of dependable GREENspot e-waste declivity locations, and by orchestrating locally focused accessible acquaintance campaigns. Californians can appointment www.aslgreenspot.com to acquisition a bounded GREENspot. 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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