[greenyes] New England Staples Office stores are taking computers equipment in pilot environmental recycling program

["Ruszkai, Steve" <ruszkai@no.address>]

				Greesyes (New Englanders),

> 			A co-worker just went to the Falmouth, Maine Staples
> store today to recycle his old Mac for free.  I called up the Staples
> stores in Falmouth and Windham and they both can take up to two computer
> systems per customer.  This computer recycling program is going on until
> July 11th.  They take computers, printers, monitors, mice, and speakers.
> So act quick and clean out the hard drives.  
> 
> 			FMI on the electronics recycling pilot program for
> participating stores and what you can exactly take, call Staples Regional
> Office program co-ordinator Mark Buckley (508) 253-0510 in Framingham,
> Mass
> 
> 	
> http://www.epa.gov/NE/ra/gb/archives/2004/20040609.html
> 
> 			I do know all Staples Stores have an ongoing recycle
> program old printer ink and toner cartridges.
> 
> 	
> http://www.greenbiz.com/news/news_third.cfm?NewsID=24104
> 
> 			Steve Ruszkai
> 
> 
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> 			From: 	Dawn Stillings
> 			Sent: 	Friday, June 11, 2004 2:30 PM
> 			To: 	Susan Ransom; Aaron Anker - Grandy Oats;
> Annie Mahle; Beth Ansheles; Cheryl Bascom; Craig W. TenBroeck; Emily
> Bloch; Glenn Rudberg; John Eldredge; Mary Allen Lindemann; Mary Mayo; Matt
> Curtis; Peter W. Taggart; Sanna McKim; Steve Robinson; Susan Olson-Gworzdz
> 			Subject: 	Staples taking unwanted electronics
> in pilot program
> 
> 			 << File: untitled-2.htm >> 
> 			Staples and EPA NE Team Up on Electronics Recycling
> 
> 			EPA and Staples Inc. are teaming up on a
> cutting-edge project to utilize
> 			retailers to collect and recycle electronic waste
> instead of it being
> 			disposed of at landfills and other waste facilities.
> 
> 			Staples has launched an Electronics Recycling
> Program for customers at
> 			27 stores across New England. From May 30 through
> July 11, customers
> 			will have a chance to recycle any used computer
> hardware and business
> 			machines, including printers, copiers, scanners and
> faxes. Staples will
> 			then send the collected items to Envirocycle, an
> electronics recycling
> 			company.
> 
> 			The program is a collaboration between EPA's Plug-In
> To eCycling program
> 			and the Product Stewardship Institute at the
> University of Massachusetts
> 			in Lowell, which received a $46,000 EPA innovative
> working group grant
> 			for the project. Companies supporting the program
> include Apple, Dell,
> 			Epson America, HP, Lexmark, Panasonic, Sharp, Sony
> and Brother
> 			International Corp.
> 
> 			Unused electronics, or e-waste, is among the fastest
> growing waste
> 			streams due to growing sales and rapid obsolescence
> of these products.
> 			An estimated 20 million personal computers became
> obsolete in the U.S.
> 			in
> 			1998 and an estimated 61 million personal computers
> will become obsolete
> 			in 2004.
> 
> 			Electronic wastes contain numerous toxic substances,
> including lead,
> 			mercury, cadmium, copper, lithium and brominated
> flame retardants. These
> 			materials can be released to the environment as
> leachate from landfills
> 			or
> 			as air emissions from waste-to-energy facilities,
> posing a threat to
> 			human health and the environment.
> 
> 			For more information, visit the agency's web site at
> 	
> http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/osw/conserve/plugin/guide.htm
> 	
> http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/osw/conserve/plugin/pilot.htm
> 
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