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Links to Residential Electronic/Computer Recycling ProgramsJune 2005CONNECTICUT Connecticut's Department of Environmental Protection (CT DEP) has information
on Electronics
Recycling opportunities. Contact the following communities for more information: Contact Connecticut
Resources Recovery Authority (CRRA) and Southeastern Connecticut
Regional Resource Recovery Authority (SCRRRA) about one-day electronic
collections for member towns. Contact: Winston Averill, SCRRRA DELAWARE The Delaware Solid Waste
Authority (DSWA) (Click on Programs and then click on Electronic
Goods Recycling) has an Electronic Goods Recycling program that lets homeowners
and businesses conveniently drop off their unwanted items for free at
DSWA facilities statewide. MAINE Where individual municipal programs vary, residents are encouraged to contact their local solid waste transfer station and recycling center. Maine's State Planning Office (SPO)'s Municipal Recycling Programs in Maine document provides a listing of Maine community contacts. Maine SPO's HHW Cost-Share Funding assists municipalities with their used electronics collections. Information includes a listing of municipal programs that have received grants from the State Planning Office to establish programs for managing used electronics. Maine SPO's Electronics Recycling Resources has information on recycling used electronics, and what collection events may look like, as well as for a listing of commercial vendors who are able to accept and manage used electronics. Contact: Maine SPO Maine's DEP's Universal Waste Management and Recycling Companies is a list of U.S. vendors that collect Universal Wastes (includes computers). MASSACHUSETTS Massachusetts' Department of Environmental Protection (MA DEP) has information
on Computer
Monitors and Television Disposal Options for Residents and Small Business that includes municipal collections and donation programs. Also provides
several links to other private resources, i.e. Wastecap, ShareTechnology,
etc. To locate a collection in a community, visit Earth 911. Enter a 5-digit zip code to see an individual community's listing. NEW HAMPSHIRE New Hampshire's Department of Environmental Services (NH DES) has information
on Municipal
Electronic Collection that includes communities (with contact
information) that have conducted either electronic collections or collected
monitors and televisions within the last year. NEW JERSEY New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station and Rutgers Cooperative Extension provide information on Where to Recycle Computers, Fluorescent Bulbs and Mercury Devices in Your County that includes private recycling companies and municipal collections. NEW YORK The New York Sate Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has Information on Used Electronics which tells residents that electronics from households (e.g., home computers, home televisions) are not considered hazardous waste, even if they fail the TC/TCLP test. (If usable household electronics are sold for non-household use, they cease to be considered household waste.) Recycling and disposal requirements for household wastes vary by municipality. Please check with your municipality for information about disposing of used electronics in your community. The New York Sate Department of Environmental Conservation has information on Dismantlers and Recyclers of Used Electronics. Contact: New York State DEC PENNSYLVANIA Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has information
on Ongoing
Electronic Collection Events that includes contact information. RHODE ISLAND The Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation (RIRRC) offers Rhode
Island Residents free recycling for their home computer equipment
and cellular phones. Residents can recycle their computers, monitors,
mouse pointers, zip drives, modems, scanners, laptops, printers, cellular
phones, and all other related equipment at a scheduled collection at RI
Resource Recovery's facility in Johnston, RI or at one of the scheduled
satellite collection dates. VERMONT Vermont's Agency
of Natural Resources provides web links to Solid Waste Management
Districts, where most provide computer recycling. This agency also provides
information on Where
to Reuse and Recycle Your Computers and Televisions. Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District (CVSWMD) provides disposal
information on Electronic
Waste for their residents. Chittenden Solid Waste District's Computer
Recycling Program collects electronic materials for their residents.
Information includes links for Reuse
Opportunities. Greater Upper Valley Solid Waste Management District provides information
about Recycling
Computers for their ten communities. OTHER RESOURCES Northeast Recycling Council, Inc. (NERC)'s Materials Exchanges In The Northeast (scroll down to Computers/Electronics) provides information on Materials Exchanges that handle only electronics. NERC's Electronics Reuse & Recycling Market Information Report assists consumers, municipal officials and businesses in New York State to identify organizations involved with the recycling and reuse of computers and televisions. The National Recycling Coalition (NRC) provides a National
Database of Electronics Recyclers, Reuse Organizations, and Municipal
Programs. Electronics Industry
Alliance: Consumer Education Initiative provides state by state
resources on electronics disposal. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA)'s Plug-In To eCycling webpage has general information about the benefits of electronics recycling. |
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