How to Recycle Old Electronics

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Consumer Affairs - 4/22/2017 - 3 smart, responsible tactics for getting rid of unwanted laptops, phones, and more. We love our devices—our TVs, laptops, tablets, and perhaps most of all, our mobile phones, those pocket-size miracles of computing power. In fact, Gartner, a tech research company, estimated that 1.9 billion cell phones were bought in 2015. That’s around one for every four people alive. But each of those devices eventually reaches the end of its useful life and becomes electronic waste. And that's a problem. A United Nations study reported that 41.8 million tons of e-waste was discarded in 2014, and only between 10 to 40 percent of it was disposed of properly. Read more @ http://www.consumerreports.org/recyclin ... ectronics/