Think Recycle - Kimberly Hoover
Posted by David Lowery
on Sep 13, 2011
“Think Recycle” – the Recycling of
Electronic Waste. ( 13 September, 2011)
By David
Lowery
“Think
Recycle” is a division of Greentec, a leading provider of e-waste recycling and
reverse logistics services. Kimberly Hoover started her talk by showing a
picture of a Shipping Container full of electronic waste, to illustrate how
effectively their program is working. Environmental responsibility is central
to their efforts. The business started out in 1995 by recycling the ink
cartridges from printers, and grew from there, to recycle all electronic waste.
Check out the web site www.thinkrecycle.com where partnership
programs are available for collecting e-waste across North America.
Typical
partners in the recycling program are Schools,
Businesses and organisations such as The Canadian Diabetes Society, in
addition to City Transfer Stations. Whilst “Green” is the trend, it needs to be
the “Norm”. Partners
in the recycling program earn money from their efforts. Twenty cents to $150
dollars can be earned by the collector, for qualifying items
such as Cell Phones, Print Cartridges, MP3 players, Laptops & Digital
Cameras.
Items
collected by “Think Recycle” are sorted
into a “Refurb.” category, or dismantled to scrap. Think recycle is also
a partner with American Forests and The Canada Tree Foundation, and will
sponsor the planting of one tree for every 24 qualifying cell phones or print
cartridges received.
To
date, they have over 20,000 registered partners and have sponsored the planting
of over 30,000 Trees in North America.
Electronic
Items that selected for “refurb” have any memory data “blanked”. Such items
could end up in local Refurb. Outlets
but most will be shipped overseas, where possible. Think Recycle is focused on
expanding their recycling program, and the Company is Certified
to ISO 14001.