Dive Brief:
- Hagerstown, MD-based retailer Spicher’s Appliances said it will recycle about 10,000 appliances yearly through a recycling program sponsored by Fairfield, CT-based General Electric Appliances
- Spicher’s Appliances will employ Philadelphia-based ARCA Advanced Processing to handle the recycling. "Twenty- and 30-year-old appliances are energy hogs," Spicher’s owner Carl Spicher said. "We need to get these old appliances off the grid."
- With traditional recycling methods, 55 pounds of a refrigerator goes to a landfill, GE said. But when the process is done through a GE Appliances Recycling Program serviced by ARCA, about seven pounds of waste per refrigerator goes to a landfill.
Dive Insight:
GE did research and found that 3 out of 4 people want some or all of their no longer needed appliances to be recycled. About 2 million appliances have been recycled through GE’s program.
