Laptop Battery As new electronic goods pop out of holiday wrapping paper, the items they replace have to go somewhere. You could throw them in the trash and eventually into a landfill, where their hazardous metals could one day leach into your groundwater. Or, you could recycle them.
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Thinkpad There's a growing market for old electronic items, particularly computers, to be recycled or reused.
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According to the latest figures from the National Safety Council (an environmental watchdog group in Washington) in 1998, 20 million computers had become obsolete in the United States alone, and only 14 % of them have been recycled or donated.1 It is expected that by 2004 the number will raise to 315 million.2 The companies which would rather dump their old computers in landfill sites instead of recycling them risk damaging public health, industry experts have warned.3 Computers are made out of hazardous toxic chemicals, acid rain, air pollution, ...
Desktop Computer "The shame is there are millions of computers that are tossed away because people don't know what to do with them," says Barry Cramner, executive director of the Mount Laurel-based Share the Technology.
Notebooks Since 1996, several thousand people and organizations have obtained used computers and computer equipment through Share the Technology's database.
Lenovo It works quite simply.
Hard Drive You can request or offer a donation online. The requests are banked in a searchable database, along with their contact information. The donors hook up with prospective recipients on their own.
Travelstar "The idea is to connect people locally," Cramner said.
Gateway It also helps keep hazardous pollutants out of the ground.
Laptop Parts Computer monitors contain as much as eight pounds of lead, according to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. TVs are about the same. Central processing units - a computer's brain - typically contain mercury, nickel, beryllium, cadmium, lead and other heavy metals.
Software Other electronics, such as radios and VCRs, are typically made more out of plastics, said Robin Heston, principal environmental specialist for the DEP.
Hard Drives State law required businesses to dispose of their electronics as hazardous waste until Dec. 17, when the state reclassified electronics and allowed and encouraged businesses to sell or donate them for reuse.
Electronics Businesses, however, cannot dump electronics in the trash.
Canon Individuals are not subject to such regulations, Heston said.
Desktop Pc Numerous studies show most landfills eventually leak. Heavy metals such as mercury and lead could eventually leach into drinking water supplies. Heavy metals can cause neurological and developmental disabilities in people.
Desktop Computers "Right now, there is nothing preventing (electronics) from being disposed as regular waste," said Susan Konen, Burlington County's assistant district recycling coordinator. "Even though we cringe when we see it, there's nothing we can do."
Think Pad Many computer companies, such as Dell, Compaq and IBM, offer to recycle old computers. The customer typically has to pay the company to take them. Many customers don't want to do that, and that puts the onus back on manufacturers.
Repair "They're being pressured by environmentalists throughout the world to minimize the heavy metals in their products," Kruzan said.
Data Recovery The National Product Stewardship Initiative has begun a discussion among manufacturers, environmentalists, recyclers and governments on addressing methods of disposing of electronics.
Cisco "There's no national take-back policy or state take-back policy, like there is in Europe," said Steven Wyatt, executive director of the San Francisco-based Computer Recycling Center.
Keyboard Heather Bowman, director of environmental affairs for Arlington, Va.-based Electronics Industry Alliance, says the industry needs market-based initiatives if it is to deal with the waste its products - and their users - are creating.
Monitor "How can we keep providing these materials at a low enough price that consumers still buy it?" Bowman said.
Desktop So far, they haven't agreed on an answer.
Infosys Without a national policy, county governments have filled the void to some degree.
Refurbished Laptops Gloucester County lists several electronics recycling locations on its Web site.
Wipro Camden County is one of only three New Jersey counties that doesn't recycle electronics, according to Kruzan. A Camden County environmental official didn't return a phone call for comment.
Lap Top Burlington County has one of the state's best electronics recycling programs, according to Kruzan. The county hosts 12 events across the county each year. In 2002, the county shipped 1,607 computer monitors to a Bridgewater company that takes the products apart and sells the materials.
Refurbished Burlington officials would like to do more, but there's not enough money, Konen said.
Memory That throws the ball back into the consumer's court, where a little ingenuity is brewing.
Intel Groups like the St. Vincent de Paul Society, a nonprofit service organization, accept donated computers and sell them at low prices in their thrift stores, such as the one on the White Horse Pike in Berlin.
As400 The most successful efforts appear to be those in which someone steps in to play the middleman between the supplier and the buyer.
Averatec GreenDisk, a Seattle-area company, has been successful recycling floppy and compact disks and other small computer equipment.
Hardware Cramner founded Share the Technology because he couldn't find anyone to take a computer he was discarding.
Dual Xeon "I tried contacting some places to see who wanted it as a donation," Cramner said. "It was extremely hard to find someone. But I knew there had to be someone who needed it.
Storage "God knows Camden really needs that sort of project," Cramner said.
Seagate Enter Rowan University's Digital Divide Program. In less than two years, the group has taken more than 70 donated computers and given them to about a dozen Camden churches so kids can use them when school's out.
Computer Sales "The kids know how to use the computers," said Eric Clark, dean of Rowan's Camden campus. "They just don't have access. The families don't have one."
Computer Hardware Clark requested donated computers through Share the Technology's database, as did the Rev. Hilda Covington. Her organization, SisterHood Inc. in Burlington City, offers career development classes to women considered "working poor." They are not on welfare but are not making much money, Covington explained.
Printers SisterHood also hosts after-school programs for about 25 kids a day.
Technology "We thought we needed to start our children with computers earlier," Covington said. "Children who are more economically advantaged are using computers at an earlier age."
Mainframe SisterHood has eight computers, Covington said. It could use 10 more.
By Daniel Walsh
Courier-Post - 12/29/2002
Topic: Recycling
