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Best Buy Offers Recycling and Trade Ins
My Husband Recycling
My husband, Keith wanted to clean out a storage room at the office, which was filled with outdated computer equipment. My first reaction was GASP, we can’t throw that into the dumpster, dooming it to end up in a landfill! Certainly someone in the world can use this perfectly good computer equipment? So, Keith did some computer research and found out that Best Buy has a recycling program at all their stores nationwide.
We were about to go shopping for a new computer, so we took the used equipment with us and dropped it off. Wow, what a way to Go Green! I don’t know what Best Buy does with the used equipment, I am hoping they find an aftermarket for it, or donate it to charity. But, in any event, it did my conscience good to give the computers away, instead of throwing them away.
In checking out the Best Buy website, I also notice that they have a trade-in program for used equipment, where you actually get a credit toward a purchase with them! How cool is that? So, spread the word, Best Buy is being a good corporate citizen, by helping us Go Green and recycle our computers! Here is the link to their trade-in and recycling page:
Best Buy Trade In & Recycling Program
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There is also a site that helps you find homes for your unneeded items called Freecycle. (www.freecycle.org) Their whole purpose is to keep working items from landfills, not to provide fodder for garage and online auction sales. We have been blessed with many household items and blessed others as well.
Just another way to pass it on!
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“I don’t know what Best Buy does with the used equipment…”. I suggest you dig to find out. A very large amount of “recycled” electronics ends up being shipped as e-waste to China, where it is disassembled and some metals extracted in a VERY pollutive and unsafe manner. Sixty Minutes did a relatively recent expose of the dark truth behind much of the electronics “recycling” that goes on in this country. The older the equipment, the more likely it is to end up as e-waste in China. Best Buy may be authentic and responsible about this, but more than one business that takes the positive green vibes it gets from equipment takeback programs has been found to simply be dumping the stuff as e-waste to China.