Getting Rid of E-waste is Getting Easier By the Day

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.

What Are You Going to do to Show You're Green This Earth Day?

With dozens of ASL GREENspot e-waste declivity locations throughout Northern California, now it's simple to abate clutter, recycle electronics -- and appearance you're green.

San Jose, Calif. (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 15, 2008 -- It's Earth Day on April 22 and abounding Californians are apprehensive what they can do to be green. This weekend, Northern Californians from Redding to Fresno can annihilate two birds with one stone: unload their anachronistic and exceptionable electronics items in their adjacency -- and at the aforementioned time do something acceptable for the planet.

ASL GREENspot logo

All of us ambition to accord to a bigger ambiance but abounding of us are not abiding absolutely what we can do. What bigger a way to bless Earth Day than to appointment your adjacency GREENspot and recycle your e-waste? Start today. Find your GREENspot this weekend and bethink your can recycle your old and exceptionable electronics all year long To admire Earth Day, ASL Recycling and the GREENetwork are hosting contest at dozens of ASL GREENspot e-waste declivity locations. To get you started, here's a how-to adviser -- it's as simple as 1-2-3:

 

STEP 1. Go to www.aslgreenspot.com and access in the ZIP cipher of area you abide (or area you will be active errands) this Earth Day weekend -- Saturday & Sunday, April 19-20, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
 
STEP 2. Choose a acceptable GREENspot e-waste declivity location. Some GREENspots are non-profit and action tax-deductible receipts. Others will aswell let you recycle your bottles, cans, cardboard and added chump goods. But all of them are chargeless for e-waste.
 
STEP 3. Drop off your e-waste for free. Feel acceptable that you bankrupt out your closet and helped accord to authoritative Planet Earth a bigger place.
"All of us ambition to accord to a bigger ambiance but abounding of us are not abiding absolutely what we can do. What bigger a way to bless Earth Day than to appointment your adjacency GREENspot and recycle your e-waste? Start today. Find your GREENspot this weekend and bethink your can recycle your old and exceptionable electronics all year long," said Carey Levine, carnality admiral of sales and business at ASL Recycling.

Each month, ASL Recycling Processes Hundreds of Tons of E-Waste:
ASL Recycling is authoritative e-waste recycling chargeless and simple by establishing a statewide arrangement of GREENspot e-waste declivity locations and orchestrating locally focused accessible acquaintance campaigns. With 70 GREENspot e-waste declivity locations statewide, ASL Recycling has absent added than three actor pounds of e-waste abroad from bounded landfills this year alone. If you're apprehensive about abstracts security, blow assured that all your claimed abstracts in any e-waste account will be destroyed. Visit www.aslgreenspot.com to acquisition a adjacency e-waste declivity location.

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 that dismantles and prepares electronics for recycling.

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.

Media Contact:
Tim Cox
Phone: 650-369-7784
Email: tim @ zingpr.com

ASL Recycling Brings E-waste Recycling to More Cities

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

ASL Recycling Hits 100 GREENspot E-Waste Locations

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

Southern California Residents Can Now Recycle Their Old Electronics at Dozens of Convenient GREENspot E-waste Drop-off Locations

With 126 GREENspots now accustomed statewide, it's never been easier for California association and businesses to acquisition free, acceptable and environmentally amenable e-waste recycling declivity locations.

Carson, Calif. (Vocus/PRWEB ) September 9, 2008 -- ASL Recycling today boarded on the additional appearance of its mission to accomplish it as simple for consumers to recycle their old and exceptionable TVs and cyberbanking accessories as simple as it is to buy them.

GREENspot Logo

Last year, if we started the GREENetwork, we focused on authoritative the aboriginal accent of the accompaniment legislation a absoluteness by establishing 'free and convenient' decay recycling solutions for consumers Californians can now appointment a website, locate a bounded GREENspot, and apperceive that the e-waste they crop there will be appropriately managed. And they don't accept to delay for a accumulating accident in their adjacency -- they can bead it off at their accessibility and apperceive it is traveling to be handled cautiously and securely. ASL Recycling has continued its arrangement of GREENspot e-waste declivity locations into Southern California, abacus 29 new GREENspots to the growing account of acceptable locations area consumers and businesses can recycle their exceptionable TVs, corpuscle phones, audio-video components, computer equipment, bake ovens, cyberbanking accessories from offices and labs, and added recyclable materials. The ASL GREENetwork is now accessible statewide for Californians analytic for bounded e-waste recycling locations, with 126 GREENspots operational.

"Last year, if we started the GREENetwork, we focused on authoritative the aboriginal accent of the accompaniment legislation a absoluteness by establishing 'free and convenient' decay recycling solutions for consumers," said Carey Levine, carnality admiral of sales and business at ASL Recycling. "Californians can now appointment a website, locate a bounded GREENspot, and apperceive that the e-waste they crop there will be appropriately managed. And they don't accept to delay for a accumulating accident in their adjacency -- they can bead it off at their accessibility and apperceive it is traveling to be handled cautiously and securely."

When ASL Recycling launched the GREENetwork beforehand this year, its ambition was to accomplish it acceptable for humans to get rid of their e-waste, and to aswell assure them that it would be advised according to industry best practices. With this additional appearance of its California amplification completed, ASL Recycling is on clue to attain its advancing ambition of authoritative it accessible for 9 out 10 households and businesses in the accompaniment to be aural 5 afar of a GREENspot. The aggregation continues to accent accessible apprenticeship on e-waste through association outreach, accumulating events, and mass-media campaigns.

Finding a bounded GREENspot is simple: appointment www.aslgreenspot.com, blazon in a ZIP, and instantly locate a adjacent declivity location.

28 Southern California GREENspots opened in August
GREENspots just opened in the afterward cities: Anaheim, Burbank, Canoga Park, Carson, Elmonte, Fontana, Huntington Beach, La Mirada, Lakewood, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Montebello, Pacoima, Pasadena, Redlands, San Bernardino, South Gate, Sun Valley, Valencia, Whittier, Wilmington.

Useful links
GREENspot locator: aslgreenspot.com
Downloadable account of GREENspots (PDF format): http://tinyurl.com/5wyz9w
Upcoming accumulating events: http://www.aslrecycling.com/collectionevents.php
ASL GREENetwork website: aslgreenetwork.com
Video about e-waste: aslrecycling.com/greenetworkvideo.htm
Carey Levine's e-waste blog: http://greenster.typepad.com/zerowaste/

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. Some GREENspots will agenda calm pick-ups, amuse alarm that area for agreement and altitude (a busline fee may apply).

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, through its assorted recycling programs, ASL Recycling prevents hundreds of bags of e-waste from accepting dumped into bounded landfills. 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 aslgreenetwork.com.