Dive Summary:
- In a report released by the Electronics Take Back Coalition, it was found that most retailers in the United States do not offer sufficient e-waste recycling programs for consumers.
- Sixteen companies were studied and rated on 20 different factors including convenience, transparency, volume of materials collected and responsibility.
- Staples, Best Buy and Office Depot ranked the highest at their attempts to recycle electronic waste, while Walmart and Amazon—the second and third largest electronics retailers—did not have productive recycling programs in place.
From the article:
... The group notes that most of the trade-in programmes require consumers to ship their items; only Best Buy and Radio Shack allow people to drop trade-in items off at stores.
The coalition notes that some retailers offer trade-in programmes... which they must ship back to the retailer. But it does not view such initiatives as comprehensive...
