Texas Begins Statewide Computer Recycling Program
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) recently launched a new site for a statewide computer recycling program.
“The goal of the program is to give Texans an easy way to recycle the used computer equipment they have been storing in their closets and garages for years,” said Mark Vickery, executive director TCEQ. “The most effective way to reduce the environmental impact of computer equipment is the help ensure it is reused or recycled.”
The new program requires computer manufacturers who sell products in Texas to provide free recycling for their individual brands of computer equipment. The law will also benefit local governments by relieving the cost of e-cycling previously placed on local municipalities.
Retailers are also only permitted to sell new computer equipment from one of the 54 manufacturers currently listed in the program, such as Apple, Compaq, Dell and Samsung. Desktop and laptop computers, monitors, keyboards and mice (all by the same manufacturer) will be accepted.
The U.S. EPA estimates that in 2007, 53 million computers became obsolete, as well as 35 million monitors and 82 million mice and keyboards.
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Conspirama
posted on October 24th, 2008 at 12:11 am
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Dona Bull
posted on June 26th, 2009 at 10:01 am
We are starting up a “green committee” where I work and would like ideas on how we can recycle. We already recycle aluminum cans, but would like ideas on plastics or any other thing we would begin to recycle at work.
Thanks