Best Buy starts E-cycling program

Via Interior Design.

Electronics giant Best Buy is attempting a new green feat by offering a recycling service for all customers, no matter where you bought your old electronics.

Best Buy’s new campaign, part of their Greener Together™ program, pledges to safely dispose of electronics responsibly. They do so by working directly with recyclers that must meet certain guidelines and standards for the disassembly, repair, reuse, or disposal of all parts, so they don’t end up in landfills or foreign countries. has a new service that, no matter where you bought it, they’ll recycle it, to encourage customers to bring in their old electronics.

E-waste is a growing problem in third world countries where many “recycling” programs ship our used devices to be sorted by the surrounding communities.

Read more about their comprehensive recycling program here.

About Laura B.

Laura L. Barnes is a librarian at the Prairie Research Institute Library, embedded at the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, and writes for Environmental News Bits.
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