With 70 ASL GREENspot e-waste declivity locations up and running, a lot of Bay Area association are now aural account of chargeless and simple e-waste disposal.
San Jose, Calif. (Vocus/PRWEB ) March 31, 2008 -- The accelerated advance of ASL GREENetwork’s GREENspot e-waste declivity locations agency that a lot of Bay Area households are now aural 5 afar of a ability area they can actuate of their e-waste for free. There are now 70 GREENspot e-waste declivity locations, from Redding to Fresno, which agency Northern Californians are now award it easier than anytime to acquisition a abode adjacent area they can crop their anachronistic electronics, including old TVs, corpuscle phones, audio-video components, computer equipment, bake ovens, cyberbanking accessories from offices and labs, and more.
When we set up the ASL GREENetwork in 2007 our primary ambition was to accomplish it chargeless and acceptable for Californians to get rid of their e-waste. Only three months into the program, we’ve accomplished this ambition for a lot of Bay Area counties—and new GREENspot e-waste declivity locations are accepting added every week Many humans accept old electronics items stored in attics, basements and garages. With Earth Day approaching, now’s the time to cautiously actuate of them. It’s easy. It’s free. It’s green. The 5 a lot of crawling counties are acutely able-bodied served. In those counties, the admeasurement of households aural 5 afar of an ASL GREENspot e-waste declivity area is actual high:
San Francisco county 97%
Santa Clara county 92%
Alameda county 84%
San Mateo county 79%
Contra Costa county 78%
Marin county 56%
Sonoma county 45%
When the account across ambit is broadcast to ten miles, the advantage is even bigger for Bay Area residents:
San Francisco county 100%
Santa Clara county 100%
Alameda county 100%
San Mateo county 99%
Contra Costa county 93%
Marin county 87%
Sonoma county 79%
A complete account of GREENspot declivity locations, sorted by ZIP code, is accessible here.
“When we set up the ASL GREENetwork in 2007 our primary ambition was to accomplish it chargeless and acceptable for Californians to get rid of their e-waste. Only three months into the program, we’ve accomplished this ambition for a lot of Bay Area counties—and new GREENspot e-waste declivity locations are accepting added every week,” said Carey Levine, carnality admiral of sales and business at ASL Recycling. “Many humans accept old electronics items stored in attics, basements and garages. With Earth Day approaching, now’s the time to cautiously actuate of them. It’s easy. It’s free. It’s green.”
Each month, ASL Recycling processes hundreds of bags of e-waste
After actualization 49 GREENspot e-waste declivity locations throughout Northern California at the end of January, ASL Recycling has back absent added than 2,774,878 pounds (1,387 tons) of e-waste abroad from bounded landfills. This astronomic aggregate of e-waste, delivered to ASL’s San Jose recycling bulb in just the endure two months, underscores the actuality that abounding Bay Area association are acquisitive to get rid of their e-waste but just charge a acceptable way to do it.
E-waste is the fastest-growing chic of solid decay in the United States, and California is arch the nation with its e-waste recycling initiatives. However, clashing added recyclable waste, there is no ‘blue bin’ agnate for curbside accumulating of e-waste so a lot of California association artlessly don’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.
18 new GREENspot e-waste declivity locations opened in March
This month, eighteen new GREENspot e-waste declivity locations were opened in Northern California, bringing the absolute statewide to 70.
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 GREENspot declivity locations, sorted by ZIP code, is accessible here.
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 of the 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.
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