Reap the Benefits from Recycling

Countless companies offer recycling programs to help get the community involved. Harris Teeter has crafted an innovative recycling program that engages people to recycle more frequently. The Together in Education program is a recycling program that also gives back to the community. Harris Teeter is committed to recycling and helping conserve landfill space, energy, and natural resources. Their partnership with Engaged Recycling is an effort to continue their commitment to recycling, as well as assist our future leaders through their Together in Education program. The program focuses on recycling electronics. When people recycle their electronics through the Together in Education link on the website then they are allowed to choose a school to donate funds to, and the rest of the funds will be placed on a Harris Teeter gift card that will be yours to keep! So instead of trashing your old cell phone, laptop, MPS player, or other electronic device, take part in the Harris Teeter Together in Education program and reap the benefits of your good deeds!

To recycle your electronics at the Together in Education website visit: https:http://www.blogger.com/www.harristeeter.com/about_us/sustainability/engaged_recycling.com

Electronic Recycling 101

E-Waste is one of the fastest growing types of wastes in the world. E-waste is electronic products, such as computers, radios, cell phones, and televisions that have not been properly discarded causing health and pollution problems from the serious containments, such as lead, cadmium, beryllium, and brominated flame retardants. Most consumers don’t know how and where to appropriately recycle these types of items.

One effective way to dispose of electronic items is during periodic disposal dates that counties set throughout the year at various locations. Bring your used electronic items to a disposal site and allow them to recycle them for you. This is a simple option to help reduce the environmental problems that are caused by the incorrect disposal of electronic items. To learn more about when and where these events will occur visit your county’s website.

Most people think of Best Buy as a mega electronic store, but Best Buy created Greener Together™, a program to assist people in safely disposing of their old electronics. They have coined the term “e-incarnated” which they use to describe how they accept old electronic products in an effort to turn them into new and better products in the future. People can bring in up to two items a day, per household. A few items come with a $10 charge, yet Best Buy will reimburse you with a $10 gift card. There are only a few items that Best Buy does not accept in the program which include, internal and external computer hard drives, electronics containing Freon, appliances such as refrigerators and dishwashers.

If you are having trouble locating a periodic disposal site or don’t have a Best Buy in the neighborhood, landfills will often accept electronic products to be recycled free of charge. All of these options are an effort to help reduce the environmental impacts that e-waste causes the planet.

Recycling Electronics

As many New Hanover County residents know - we will soon be switching to digital television on September 8th. This has the potential of creating trouble for the environment.

If you use an antennae to get your TV signal, you can buy a converter box or you can buy a new TV. All of them are now digital ready. But what do you do with the old set?

Electronics recycling events offer the best solution. If you just trash that old TV, it has the potential to damage to the environment. About a million tons of old phones, computers and TVs ended up in landfills last year.

Useful materials from those items like glass, plastic, and metals all went to waste.The next electronics recycling event in our area is Saturday, September 6 at Mayfaire Town Center behind Linens 'n Things.

From 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM you can drop off your items, but no microwaves, smoke alarms or large appliances, such as refrigerators, are accepted. There's no charge and you're helping the environment while reducing the clutter in your house.