[1st-mile-nm] Santa Fe E-Waste Recycling

[Richard Lowenberg]

So-called E_Waste Recycling is a major local-global issue.
A growing number of communities, companies and NGOs are attempting to mitigate
some of the complex ecological impacts, with local recycling programs.
Here's news of upcoming Santa Fe E-Waste recycling.
If you hear of similar programs in other NM cities, please let us know here.
Information on ways to improve such programs in NM would also be appreciated.
RL
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E-waste recycling day scheduled
The New Mexican
Posted: Monday, July 12, 2010 - 7/13/10

Old computer equipment taking up room in your home?

Computers and most computer equipment, telephones, hand-held electronic devices
and audio equipment can be discarded for free at the city's annual
electronic-waste recycling drop-off from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Aug. 21 at 1142 Siler
Road.

Televisions will be accepted for $10 and old-style "cathode ray tube" computer
monitors will be accepted for $5, according to a news release from the city of
Santa Fe, Keep Santa Fe Beautiful and Albuquerque Recycling Inc., which takes
some of the recycling materials collected in Santa Fe.

Items accepted without charge include computers, servers, laptops and components
such as keyboards, mice, wires, cables, flat-screen monitors, printers and
scanners, fax machines, all types of phones including cellular phones, Palm
Pilots and other personal digital assistants, television satellite equipment,
video-cassette recorders and compact-disc players, stereo equipment, computer
and TV game assemblies, cameras and video cameras.

Lead acid batteries, computer backup batteries and UPS (uninterruptible power
supply) batteries will be accepted, but not alkaline batteries of any size.
Also not accepted during the drop-off will be coffee makers, hair dryers, bread
machines, light bulbs of any kind, cardboard or paper, appliances such as
microwave ovens and household hazardous waste.

According to the news release, information on hard drives will be wiped out by
an "overwrite process," and if the hard drive is nonworking and cannot be
wiped, it will be crushed.

For more information, call 955-2215 or e-mail Sfbeautiful at santafenm.gov.


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Richard Lowenberg
1st-Mile Institute
P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-989-9110;   505-603-5200 cell
rl at 1st-mile.com  www.1st-mile.com

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