Electronic Waste Disposal
Mobile Phones, Tablets, Laptops: Computers the proliferation of digital devices is becoming a problem for the planet because once they come to the end of their useful lives — every year almost 50 million tons of technological scrap is generated — their recycle rate is poor. Improving it is vital to slowing climate change and avoiding harm to the environment.
Electronic waste contains elements like cadmium, lead, antimony, nickel and mercury.
Since we know consumers will keep buying new devices, it’s important to keep reinforcing that message that we need to recycle the older models, not throw them out.
There are serious environmental risks if we send our electronics to a landfill. In contrast, recycling provides considerable benefits to our environment.
The process is simple: gather your old and unused electronics like you would your garbage. A trash can or bin is perfect for this. For larger appliances, you usually want to gather them along with your smaller electronics in a garage. Then, bring them into Great Lakes Electronics. For consumers, the scheduled drop off all days between the hours of 10:30 AM – 7:30 PM For businesses, give us a call at 8800575430 to arrange pick-up service or to schedule a delivery.