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CCR Celebrates Our Fourth Anniversary - No Recycling or Pick-Up Fees Through March 15th!!!

This February Commonwealth Computer Recycling is celebrating our fourth year in business! To say thank you to all our clients, we have a tremendous special - we are waiving all recycling and pick-up fees for the month! Yes, that's correct, in February (and now through March 15th) you can recycle your computers securely and safely at no cost whatsoever!

For free pick-up, minimum twenty computers - no charge for drop-off. Serialized data destruction reports available. No televisions.

Migrant wokers in Guiyu, China scavenge used electronic equipment, which often contains highly toxic materials. Source: Jim Puckett/AP

The UN is calling for greater action to combat the global electronic waste problem, after a study released this past Monday said that some countries could see a 500% increase in electronic waste in the next decade.

The study, produced by the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP), says that due to increased technology consumption and shorter product life-cycles, the amount of E-Waste produced in the developed world is steadily increasing. However, it is countries experiencing rapid industrialization, like China and India, that may be in for the biggest hit.

Due to rapid growth, and to illegal dumping, the report estimates that by 2020, e-waste from discarded mobile phones alone will be about 18 times the 2007 level in India, and about seven times the 2007 level in China. E-waste from television sets will double by 2020 in both countries.

Although the US is the largest global producer of E-waste, at about three million tons per year, China is already number two, at 2.3 million tons. This does not include E-waste illegally dumped in China, which is estimated at one million tons per year.

To combat this, the UN is calling for support for existing recycling programs and efforts to increase public awareness of the need to recycle E-waste. In addition, they are calling for stricter enforcement of existing recycling and anti-dumping laws.

Kentucky Senate Bill 160, "An Act Relating to Electronic Scrap Recycling", was introduced in the Senate on February 17th and is now being revised by the Natural Resources and Energy Committee. The bill, as it presently stands, is a sort of all-purpose omnibus bill putting Kentucky on a path to regulating the disposal of E-scrap within the Commonwealth. As most of our readers know, Kentucky has had no state-level electronics recycling requirements - this bill looks to be a first step toward them.

As we noted when we first reported on this bill, in it's current form it does include provisions to establish a working group this year to evaluate the feasibility of a complete landfill ban on E-waste in Kentucky, and to determine appropriate penalties for violation of such a ban. We will keep you posted as this story develops

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