E-Cycle reclaims more than 38 million pounds in first year
TELEVISION SETS, LAPTOP
and desktop computers and monitors can be recycled for free in the North Olympic Peninsula.
Households, businesses, school districts, government agencies and nonprofit groups can take advantage of the free program.
Drop-off sites:
• E Cycle Northwest at 272693 U.S. Highway 101, on the water side 1.5 miles east of the 7 Cedars Casino in Blyn.
Owner Dan Tharp said people can drop off the recyclable electronics between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturdays, or by appointment.
Tharp can be reached at 360-681-8645 or 360-775-0467.
• Port Angeles Goodwill at 603 S. Lincoln St., and Port Townsend's Goodwill at 602 Howard St.
The Goodwill stores may resell TVs and computers that are in working order.
Computer mouses, printers, cell phones, scanners and other electrical devices and appliances are not part of the free recycling program. Sites such as eCycle Northwest charge to process such products.
For more information about E-Cycle Washington, visit www.wmmfa.net, www.ecyclewashington.org or phone 800-732-9253.
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and desktop computers and monitors can be recycled for free in the North Olympic Peninsula.
Households, businesses, school districts, government agencies and nonprofit groups can take advantage of the free program.
Drop-off sites:
• E Cycle Northwest at 272693 U.S. Highway 101, on the water side 1.5 miles east of the 7 Cedars Casino in Blyn.
Owner Dan Tharp said people can drop off the recyclable electronics between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturdays, or by appointment.
Tharp can be reached at 360-681-8645 or 360-775-0467.
• Port Angeles Goodwill at 603 S. Lincoln St., and Port Townsend's Goodwill at 602 Howard St.
The Goodwill stores may resell TVs and computers that are in working order.
Computer mouses, printers, cell phones, scanners and other electrical devices and appliances are not part of the free recycling program. Sites such as eCycle Northwest charge to process such products.
For more information about E-Cycle Washington, visit www.wmmfa.net, www.ecyclewashington.org or phone 800-732-9253.
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Free recycling of television sets, laptop and desktop computers and monitors is available in Jefferson and Clallam counties through the E-Cycle Washington program.
When E-Cycle Washington began operations on Jan. 1, 2009, it was one of the first in the nation to collect unwanted TVs, computers and monitors for free recycling, Ecology said.
The program, regulated by Ecology, is funded by manufacturers of electronic products.
During the first year of the program statewide, 22.3 million pounds of televisions, 12. 3 million pounds of monitors and 3.9 million pounds of computers were recycled.
Electronic products contain heavy metals and chemicals at hazardous levels, making them difficult to dispose of safely, Ecology said.
For example, depending on its size, a TV's cathode ray tube contains an estimated 4 to 8 pounds of lead.
Recycling electronic products keeps toxic metals such as lead and mercury out of landfills and the environment.
"The E-Cycle Washington program is even more successful than we had hoped," said Ted Sturdevant, Ecology director, in a statement.
"At the start, we estimated the program would collect 26 million pounds in the first year, but it hit that total in August.
"And these numbers don't include the thousands of working units that went to reuse through sales or donations by charities such as Goodwill, the Salvation Army and St. Vincent De Paul," he added.
There are more than 230 collection sites and services statewide. King, Pierce and Snohomish counties were responsible for more than 64 percent of the total pounds collected.
The energy savings from recycling rather than land-filling the computers alone -- 10 percent of the total volume -- is equivalent to more than 690,000 gallons of gasoline, Ecology said.
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