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Mercer
County an
introduction to all that Mercer County has to offer families,
visitors, and businesses.
The
New Jersey Solid Waste Policy Group
Hazardous
Waste Management Project
Visit
these links: Where to Recycle in Your County and List of
Recycling Markets. The New Jersey Solid Waste Policy Group
(NJSWPG) is an initiative designed to coordinate resources at
Rutgers University and across the State to address real life solid
waste issues.
Recycling
Computers
A
recent National Safety Council study predicts that over 300
million personal computers will be recycled over the next 4 years.
This includes an estimated 150 million obsolete personal computers
currently sitting unused in storage. The EPA estimates that
currently 80% of all discarded computer systems find there way
into land fills.
Clean Computer
Campaign The
Clean Computer Campaign targets the escalating electronic waste
problems across the U.S. and complements the efforts of the
International Campaign for Responsible Technology (I-CRT), which
was formed more than 10 years ago as an outgrowth of Silicon
Valley Toxics Commission
Back
Thru The Future Micro Computers,
since its inception 10 years ago has been committed to preventing
obsolete personal computers from ending up in a landfill. We
provide reuse options as our primary vehicle. 60% of all personal
computers received are refurbished and upgraded for resale as
complete inexpensive computer systems or computer maintenance
parts.
Recycling
Microwaves: contact Hesstech in
Sayreville, NJ 1-800-958-1404.
This company does microwave recycling.
Recycling
Telephones
Collective Good
Collective Good refurbishes collected phones at its facility in
Southeastern Kentucky and resells them in Latin America at 33% the
cost of new phones.
Recycling
Foam Packaging
Alliance
of Foam Package Recyclers
offers 10 different locations through out the state to recycle
your foam packaging.
Ecology, Environment,
& Education
Consumer
Education Initiative The goal of this initiative,
sponsored by the Electronics Industry Alliance is to lessen the
environmental impacts of electronic products throughout the entire
life cycle, from design to end- of-life.
EPA Office of
Pollution Prevention and Toxics "Pollution
prevention pays," say several of the nation's leading
corporations. Increasingly, the nation is coming to understand
prevention's value—as an environmental strategy, as a sustainable
business practice, as a fundamental principle for all our society.
Stony
Brook-Millstone Watershed Association
Education World - In
the spring of 1996, the founders of Education World recognized the
need for a Web site that would make the Internet easier for
educators to use. They wanted to create a home for educators on
the Internet, a place where teachers could gather and share
ideas.
Reuse
The Repair Clinic sells replacement parts for 200,000 appliances,
including some manufactured decades ago.
Wrenchhead sells replacement auto parts.
Partsdirect a division of Sears that sells parts direct.
Live Manuals a searchable
database of information for more than 13,000 consumer electronics and
major appliance products.
Reuse
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