California's Save Mart Supermarkets Collect E-Waste for Recycling

Environment News Service, July, 2006

FRESNO, California (ENS) — --> Save Mart Supermarkets today became the first supermarket chain in California to serve as a collector of electronic waste. Today and Sunday, six Save Mart stores across Northern and Central California are giving customers and the community a chance to safely unload their old computers, television sets and other out-dated, unusable or unwanted electronic items for proper recycling.

It is illegal to throw an unwanted television or computer monitor in the trash in the state of California. Electronic items have toxic elements in them that are environmentally hazardous when they are dumped into landfills. By law, such products must now be recycled properly and in ways that will not harm the environment.

Save Mart is collecting electronic...

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