Instead of throwing away your old electronics Green Citizen offers convenient recycling services to recycle your old electronics.

Every year, an estimated 400 million units of obsolete electronics are scrapped

By 2010, this figure will rise to three billion units.

While advances in technology continue to improve and enrich our lives, product lifecycles are getting shorter and shorter. And that means an increasing stockpile of end-of-life equipment that needs to be managed. When discarded, much of this equipment ends up in landfills in the US, or is exported to third world countries.

• An average of 220 tons of e-waste is dumped in landfills and incinerators every year in the US alone. These toxic items constitute as much as 2-5% of the US municipal solid waste stream and continues to grow rapidly.
• As much as 50 to 80 percent of US electronic waste collected for recycling is sent to Asia.

GreenCitizen offers you a number of convenient ways to recycle your electronics.

• Drop-Off at our GreenCitizen Silicon Centers in both Silicon Valley and San Francisco.
• On-Site Pick-Up for businesses, organizations, government, schools and more.
• GreenCitizen Classifieds™, an online marketplace that helps individuals and organizations sell, donate or even give away electronics they no longer need. Likewise, those in need can find second-hand electronics they could use.
• GreenCitizen Collector Boxes™ - take-home units that help you save smaller recyclables until you’re ready to recycle them at our Center.
• GreenCitizen Kiosks™ - drop-off stations for smaller electronics (batteries, cell phones, ink cartridges, CDs/DVDs) in convenient neighborhood locations.

reference link: http://www.greencitizen.com

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