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Why Recycle Computers?Do you have an old computer gathering dust? According to the National Safety Council's Environmental Health Center, there will be 315 million obsolete computers in the U.S. by 2004. That will amount to 1.2 billion pounds of lead, 2 million pounds of cadmium, and 400,000 of mercury. Electronic circuit boards, batteries, and color cathode ray tubes (CRTs) can contain hazardous materials such as lead, mercury and hexavalent chromium. If improperly handled or disposed, these toxins can be released into the environment through landfill leachate or incinerator ash.
Help keep these toxins out of the environment, by recycling your old computer!
The demanufacturing process offers environmental benefits. By reusing components and other electronic equipment, manufacturing cost and natural resources consumption can be reduced. This enables the recovery and ultimate reuse of these valuable, yet potentially hazardous resources. Material recovered include plastics, metals, leaded and non-leaded glass, circuit boards, power supplies and drives.
If you would like more information about computer or electronic recycling please call Donna at 402-582-4233 or drop her an email at rdchristi@plvwtelco.net.
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