Dive summary:
- After buying two Colorado electronic refurbishing and resell companies, Waste Management entered the electronic recycling market with the WM Pays to Recycle program.
- Waste Management has five end-of-life-facilities across the U.S. and emphasize their focus on the sustainability recycling by encouraging customers to use their old boxes to send the electronics, and are R2 certified, meaning the electronics are safely dismembered and recycled.
- Customers can get an online quote for their old device, print out a label and shortly after receive their money, customers can also chose to donate the money from their old electronic to a national organization.
From the article:
Waste Management's facilities are R2 certified, meaning the products are handled in an environmentally friendly way and all data is wiped clean from each device before it is recycled or resold.
"People can rest assured that when the product gets into our hands, that not only are we going to do the right thing environmentally, but we're going to protect the data as well," Miller said.
The majority of the electronics Waste Management has received have been cell phones, though it also accepts laptops, iPods and tablets. Approximately 50% of the cell phones sent to Waste Management have been refurbished, said Miller. The rest are shredded, separated by commodity and recycled. ...
