Electronic recycling stuff to say

[ewastenw]

I do not really nowhere I would discus issues I have regarding electronic waste. If you could see what I have seen in this industry that I am in you would probably freak out!


Example TV’s and CRT monitors. The end is here for the CRT tube type of TVs and monitors. Now being replaced with flat screens. Did the manufactures THINK about the global impact of the waste that is produced by people getting rid of their TV’s and monitors and switching to flat screens? Oregon is still working on a plan for electronic disposal. You can legally throw a CRT in the trash here I do not practice this. I have ethics to uphold.


This is what I do alone with no helpers or employs. Going on my 5th year now.
I do not charge people or companies to recycle their electronics. I just charge for CRT monitors. I have to pay a recycling fee on every monitor I pick up.



The way I see it almost everything is recyclable. The problem is having facilities to take the stuff. The computer industries create problems in recycling like making plastics with fire retardant mixed into the plastic. That’s great! Your computer will not burn up but the plastic companies do not want fire retardant in the plastic and this type gets land filled.

Different States have different rules and please bare with me my grammar is not very good.


I do not just recycle computers I try and recycle everything that is electric my job is very labor intensive. By doing what I do I divert a little bit out of the waste stream.

Ewaste NW

[Corey]

Just to let you know Minnesota has a new law saying you can no longer throw the monitors and tv in the trash you have to take them to waste disposal for recycling....

The draw back is that the cost of disposal has caused some who do not want to pay or can't pay to illegally dump them on the side of roads or in environmentally critical areas. instead of in the trash......

There needs to be some kind of tax or advance fee payed when buying electronics that would cover the recycling fee thus making the turning in of waste electronics free...... People would be willing to recycle then for their is no penilty for doing the right thing other than the time to actually take it to the recyclers.....