Recycling by Mail: Free, Fast and Easy
Article or RSS item submitted by Ty Wenzel • Mar 24th, 2008 • Category: Green Me Baby! | 32 views
Imagine a world where trash is so valuable that, instead of throwing it away, the post man comes and picks it up from your doorstep and whisks it off to some exotic location to be re-used, re-purposed or recycled.
Well, that day may actually be here. Except, instead of any old trash…it's only small electronic gadgets and printer cartridges.
The U.S. Postal Service recently decided that they were going to house a new kind of recycling center. They've teamed up with CORE Recycling Concepts (part of Clover Technologies.) by placing free mailers in over 1,500 post offices. The Postal Service is asking people to put their electronic "trash" into the mailers. The post office then pays shipping to Clover's sorting centers. Once there, the items are sorted, and then either sold to companies that can use them, or recycled.
The project is centered on a few large cities right now. But if Clover can make enough money, and pay the Post Office back for it's trouble, they could expand the program nationally in the fall. Here's hoping!
Check out the full press release after the jump.
Via Computer World
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