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Recycle electronics free by mail

SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. -- Just when you thought technology was making "snail mail" obsolete, the U.S. Postal Service announces a vital new service that lets you recycle cell phones, iPods and other electronics -- as well as printer inkjet cartridges -- via mail. For free!

To use the "Mail Back" program, find one of the 1,500 post offices that offers special free envelopes. Drop in your recyclable electronics item, and mail it without postage. It goes to Clover Technologies Group, which recycles, remanufactures and remarkets inkjet cartridges, laser cartridges and small electronics.

Best of all, for those of us who live on the road, you can take as many "Mail Back" envelopes as you please, and use them to mail your electronics from anywhere. It's a great idea to tuck one into your carry-on laptop bag. When something dies on the road, you can drop it in the envelope and give it to your hotel's front desk to mail -- no need to carry the extra weight home.

Currently the program is a trial, and is focused on ten cities, including Washington, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles and San Diego. If successful, it will go nationwide in the fall, according to the Postal Service.

Details here.

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RICOM’s Computer Buyback and Recycling Program attempt to reduce the amount of electronics in landfills by refurbishing for further use or by safely recycling it. RICOM’s recycling and buyback programs offers customers in the United States a simple way to receive cash for their unwanted technology equipment or, if there is no value, recycle it.

We offer effective solutions that make it easy for customers to go green. Our Computer Buyback and Recycling Program is an example of RICOM’s commitment to reducing environmental impact by providing a convenient way for customers to responsibly recycle data center equipment. Environmentally, RICOM is committed to offering products and services that are environmentally practical throughout their life cycles.

Remanufacture and reuse is only one component of the environmental lifecycle. A complete approach to the environment considers all aspects of a product's lifecycle and footprint of a product. Systems that can be upgraded using refurbished components extend the end date of their use. RICOM offers refurbished components in new products and packaging as an alternative of cost savings.

Hardware asset recovery has value with used equipment Trade-in/trade-up, donation and off lease programs. With 20 years experience in IT sales, refurbishing and recycling operations, green is good business. Our vast portfolio of blade, virtualized configurations as well as energy star certified products cuts power costs, and consolidates data center real estate. Recycling computers rather than depositing them in landfills or shipping them off for other nations has risk of sensitive data. RICOM’s partnered with company’s assisting in such disk data sanitation services.

RICOM extends environmental technology solutions saving customers money. Electronic products make up the fastest growing segment of our landfill waste. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, in 2007, more than 63 million computers in the United States were traded in for replacements, or simply thrown out. Discarded computers don't just take up space in a landfill. Careless computer disposal spread toxic wastes of more than 100 chemicals leaching in the soil. Be responsible, reuse certified refurbished equipment, and recycle your aging data center equipment that is cost effective both business and the environmentally.

Green Asset Recovery Solutions, contact RICOM http://www.shopricom.com/

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Where to?

Where do I address the envelope to?

no address needed

It automatically goes to the correct address for Clover Technologies.

Ipod

I've been told at the Mac stores that you can bring in your old ipods, and they'll give you a 10% discount on a new one. I figure that's what I'll do when I'm ready to get a new one :)

Post Office proposed Recycling

So glad to hear this, especially inkjet cartridges. How about small batteries like AA, AAA, C, D or even smaller like watch and hearing aid cells?

Recycling batteries

I'm not sure where you live, but in the San Francisco Bay Area, the photo departments of most Walgreens Drug Stores will recycle them for you. If you live in an area where they don't have Walgreens, perhaps some other drugstore or photo store might be willing to recycle them?