Best Buy To Test Recycling Program
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Best Buy has announced a test program in which they plan on offering a recycling service to consumers to bring in their used appliances. The test program involves eight states and 117 stores to begin with. On their web site it states:
Starting June 1, 117 stores in the Baltimore, San Francisco, and
Minnesota markets are inviting customers to bring in no more than two
(2) units per day, per household, for recycling at no charge. Customers
can bring items such as televisions and monitors up to 32”, computers,
phones, cameras, and other electronics devices and peripherals in for
recycling.
The following items cannot be accepted through this program:
- Televisions or monitor screens greater than 32”
- Console televisions
- Air conditioners
- Microwaves
- Appliances (customers are invited instead to use Best Buy’s appliance haul-away and pick-up programs)
Best Buy will work with its stores, recycling partners, and
manufacturers to evaluate the success of the test and determine options
for scaling it across the U.S.
Check the Best Buy site for other recycling options available in all all of it’s stores.
Hopefully if this test program takes off, other retailers will join in to help to recycle the mountains of products that currently go into our landfills.
Comments welcome.
3 Comments
thoughtful card sender
June 2nd, 2008
at 5:17pm
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Ryan
June 3rd, 2008
at 7:37am
This is an unfortunate symptom of the society we live in, whenever Microsoft or Apple create something that is finally too huge and bloated for your hardware, you are supposed to just forget about upgrading it (Some cheap PC’s, and MOST Macs are designed to stop you), and just throw it away, even if it’s doing everything you need.
I think XP users are in for a real treat next year when Microsoft end of life’s XP Home and will refuse to reactivate it.
Which is why I go out of my way to avoid such products that do this, nobody ever mentioned that much can still be accomplished, on as little as a 486 and 16 megs of RAM (DamnSmallLinux), theres even individuals that accept old computers to load Linux on and donate them to schools.
Microsoft is worried that kids will learn how to use something not from them, so they donate computers running Windows to libraries and schools, and even get to write them off their taxes as a business loss, when it’s really just a form of marketing that they can take a tax break on.
Ron Schenone
June 3rd, 2008
at 7:52am
Thanks for the comments and for sharing your opinions with us.
Ryan - I agree that older computers still can be used w/Linux and can help students in areas where local schools are unable to provide a more expensive alternative.
I have an older 486 w/256MB Ram running Ubuntu and it works great. Plus no fear of picking up any unwanted critters from the Internet.