Chesapeake Ecycle

10/06/2012

Nab yourself one of these $5 gift cards to Dunkin' Donuts while they still last. Recycle your old computer today!

09/24/2012

Recycle your old PC and we've got a $5 Gift Card to Dunkin' Donuts' with your name on it!

Here's more info:
We’re giving away a $5 Gift Card to Dunkin’ Donuts’ to the next 50 people who drop off a Complete PC tower to be recycled at R.B. Bakers in Queenstown or Corsica Technologies in Centreville. Please help us pass the word on this great offer and hurry while supplies last!

Rules: To receive a gift card, a complete PC tower must include the chassis, motherboard, power supply, hard drive, processor, and memory. Laptops, printers, and monitors are welcomed to be recycled but do not count as a Complete PC tower.

09/24/2012

PASS THE WORD:
We’re giving away a $5 Gift Card to Dunkin’ Donuts’ to the next 50 people who drop off a Complete PC tower to be recycled at R.B. Bakers in Queenstown or Corsica Technologies in Centreville. Please help us pass the word on this great offer and hurry while supplies last!

Rules: To receive a gift card, a complete PC tower must include the chassis, motherboard, power supply, hard drive, processor, and memory. Laptops, printers, and monitors are welcomed to be recycled but do not count as a Complete PC tower.

08/07/2012

We're celebrating our 50th 'Like' on Facebook today! Thank you everyone!!

08/04/2012

We kept another 130 computers out of the landfills this week! Keep them coming everyone!! Still working on a time to drop yours off? No problem! We'll be here all week.

08/04/2012

What's driving the e-waste crisis? Item #7 - Lack of regulation requiring proper management:

Many nations either lack adequate regulations for this relatively new waste stream, or lack effective enforcement of new e-waste regulations. In the U.S., federal regulations exempt large volumes of electronic waste from environmental laws. Occupational health and safety agencies are not actively overseeing the exposures occurring in the e-recycling industry. In many jurisdictions, it is still perfectly legal to dispose of toxic e-waste in non-hazardous waste landfills and incinerators, depositing lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic, etc. into inappropriate disposal facilities, and failing to reclaim valuable materials.

(ref. e-stewards.org)

08/01/2012

iMacquariums!

Guide to local resources including recycling centers, how to recycle, pollution prevention and how help protect the environment.

08/01/2012

Looking to raise money for a good cause? Set up an e-waste collection point and we'll reimburse you by the pound. Contact us for more detail on our website or by emailing [email protected] .

08/01/2012

What's driving e-waste, Part 6 - Policy of “free trade in toxic waste”:

Some countries persist in freely trading in hazardous wastes despite the global norms. The U.S. is the only developed country in the world that has failed to ratify the 1989 Basel Convention, an international treaty controlling trade in hazardous waste from richer to poorer countries. In 1995, that treaty adopted a full ban on exports from rich to poorer countries. Although this ban is not yet in full legal force globally, all European Union nations have fully enforced it. On the other hand, the U.S., Canada, Japan and some other developed countries, actively oppose this prohibition of toxics going from developed to developing countries. In Canada, the Basel Convention is not properly implemented, with unique definitions of hazardous e-waste resulting in export practices out of step with other Basel Parties. In these countries, it is perfectly legal for businesses to maximize profit by exporting toxic electronics to developing countries, even when this export is a violation of the laws of importing countries. The export of toxic electronic waste to developing countries disproportionately burdens them with a toxic legacy and allows for externalization of real costs.

07/31/2012

What's driving e-waste, Part 5 - Reuse abuse:

Sending equipment and parts for reuse – an important solution – can easily be abused by falsely labeling scrap as reusable or exporting “refurbishable” equipment. Often importing countries are left to clean up the mess of bad batteries, mercury lamps and CRTs. The resulting hazardous waste is dumped in countries lacking any infrastructure to properly manage it. This is usually a violation of the Basel Convention and laws in the importing countries.

07/31/2012

Reminder: Set the date to drop that old computer off to be recycled.

07/30/2012

What's driving e-Waste, Part 4- No financial incentive to recycle:

There’s usually not enough value in most electronic waste to cover the costs of responsibly managing it in developed countries, unless laws require such management as a service industry. For this reason it is exported to countries where workers are paid low wages and the infrastructure and legal framework is too weak to protect the environment, workers and communities.

(ref. e-stewards.org)