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    It's similar but different in this area. The credo is Reduce,Reuse, and Recycle. The prime concern is to address the problem of lead & mercury and see to it that electronics items containing those things are properly disposed of. The big thing is the CRT's. The consensus of the scrappers in this area is that they are strictly off limits. The state pays the larger e-waste companies so much per unit so it's profitable for them.

    On the flip side .... the local consensus is that NO towers,desktops,laptops,tablets, or cell phones leave the community intact. Hard drives are either destroyed or wiped with a three pass overwrite that meets DOD standards. Memory cards & other type SSD's are made inoperable. The computers that can be refurbished are either sold or given to a family that's struggling to get by. The ones that are too old are recycled locally in a responsible way and it brings a little more money into the area from the outside world.

    If you think about it:

    1: The volume of e-waste leaving the community is reduced.



    2: Those things that can be reused are refurbished and put back into service.

    3: The rest get recycled in a responsible way.

    The big problem is that there's an ASSUMPTION that once a computer has been dropped off at the designated spot and picked up by a big recycler that it will be dealt with in a responsible way. The truth is that nobody really knows unless careful oversight is maintained. Laptops are especially labor intensive so it's more likely that they will be palatalized and shipped off to China or some third world nation for recycling. That's a pretty significant export of American data to countries that may not be our friends.

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