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Recycling
e-Waste Drive Nets Nearly 16,000 Pounds
of Tech Trash
The building’s three-day electronic
waste recycling drive, held in conjunction with Earth
Day, was extremely successful.
Tenants donated approximately 15,829 pounds of computer
monitors, laptops, copiers, printers, telephones, computer
processing units, printer cartridges, batteries and cell
phones for recycling. Jenner & Block was the largest
donor, while Burke, Warren, MacKay & Serritella contributed
a significant amount of waste.
With the exception of cell phones, the items collected
in the e-waste drive went to COM2, a nationally known
recycler based in Carol Stream, Ill. The company takes
in 10 tons of electronics every day from across the United
States — none of which goes to landfills, says COM2’s
Saheem Baloch. The company separates items that can be
reused from those that are obsolete and resells them.
Sixty percent of the materials COM2 collected from 333
N. Wabash will be reused.
Those who want to recycle office or home e-waste in the
future can contact COM2 or other recycler. COM2 accepts
all electronics, except refrigerators and air conditioning
units, and charges only $5 for computer monitors. All
other drop offs are free. COM2 will also pick up items;
visit www.com2computer.com or call
(630) 653-2662 for details.
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COM2 Computer wants to educate the
community on recycling.
We will give you recycling tips that can be useful for
your home or office.
Please feel free to contact us if you should
have any further questions regarding recycling. COM2 is
also willing to come to your location and educate your
staff on electronic recycling. Please see below for recycling
ideas. Check back often, as we will be adding to this
list.
Happy Recycling!
The Staff at COM2 Computers
- Buy products in larger economy packages when you can.
You'll reduce excess packaging that comes with buying
smaller amounts more often plus, a family of four could
save about $3,000 a year.
- How much aluminum in America gets thrown out in the
trash in three months? Enough to rebuild our country's
entire commercial air fleet, so recycle those beverage
cans instead of trashing them.
- If every U.S. household used just one box of 100%
recycled facial tissues instead of virgin fiber facial
tissues, we could save 163,000 trees (about 3 acres
of dense forest) from being cut down.
- When you see the triangular recycling symbol on the
bottom of your paper and plastic containers and products,
make sure to put them in the recycling bin instead of
the trash.
- Know how easy it is to use 65% less lighting energy?
Use compact fluorescent lights instead of traditional
incandescent bulbs.
10%
Senior Citizen Discount Every Day
We Offer Free Recycling to Hospitals & Schools!
Thank You for Your Continued
Business!
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