My post on Sunday about the challenges of trying to dispose of my family’s e-waste collection obviously touched a nerve. Many readers submitted valuable tips for e-waste recycling, praising the few cities and a few stores that run good e-waste recycling programs. (Best Buy in particular came out looking like a star!)
But even the success stories drove home that you have to be pretty motivated to recycle e-waste. You have to be willing to drive the stuff somewhere -– often at a designated hour -– or to pay someone to take it away, for starters. Next time I have e-waste to recycle, I’ll contact The 4th Bin, a for-pay recycler in New York City (which was praised by several readers) for a quote. But, like many of you, there is a limit to the effort and money I am able to devote to throwing stuff away. (via Lessons Learned on Recycling E-Waste - NYTimes.com
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