Electronics retailer Best Buy announced on Monday that it's testing a free electronic-waste recycling program in 117 of its stores in the Baltimore, Minneapolis, and San Francisco areas, plus a few other select stores in the East and Midwest. Customers can bring in up to two e-waste items per day for free recycling, including TVs, computers, video-game consoles, VCRs, and the like. "We want to take the time to learn if we can handle this before we go any further," said Best Buy spokesperson Kelly Groehler. "We know the need is there and the waste stream is there. We think everyone needs to bear some responsibility for this -- consumers, retailers and manufacturers." If all goes well, Best Buy could expand the program to include its 805 other U.S. stores.
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source: Associated Press, Best Buy
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archigeek Posted 1:34 am
02 Jun 2008
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rjmart01 Posted 3:40 am
02 Jun 2008
AYS has a complementary initiative about managing Ewaste, but it appears to be separate from the computer recycling program. Go figure.
Given the carefully crafted wording on both sites, the absolute absence of any identified destination, and the fact that AYS seems to make its living by selling "corporate responsibility" on a path-of-least-resistence basis, I'm dreadfully afraid that the answer to Archigeeks question is "a slow boat to China".
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tinare23 Posted 2:51 am
05 Jun 2008
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