Waste Electronic Recycling with Terracycle




Have you ever wondered where all of our old computers and out dated electronics go? The shocking answer is usually that they go to a landfill but one company is making treasures out of e-trash and their waste electronic recycling is a wonderful thing!

Piles of E-Waste!

Piles of E-Waste!


I have noticed a trend of e-waste products starting to hit our local stores in the form of circuit board picture frames etc, but I wanted to find an online store / company that sold them a little cheaper than the big retailers, that’s when I found “Terracycle”. All of Terracycles products are made from recycled items and their waste electronic recycling products are the best…

Waste Electronic Recycling by Terracycle

Waste Electronic Recycling by Terracycle



They currently sell two sizes of recycled electronic circuit board picture frames;

The Large E-Waste Picture Frame

The Small E-Waste Picture Frame

The picture frames are really nice and the prices are great too, but my favorite e-waste product from Terracycle is their recycled electronic waste desk clock;

Terracycle E-Waste Desk Clock

Terracycle E-Waste Desk Clock

The Terracycle slogan is to “Outsmart Waste!” and they certainly do that. Big companies have started to notice these great products and Target now sells Terracycles e-waste clocks and picture frames made from circuit boards. So if you are interested in keeping some more electronic waste away from our landfills then check out their site;

http://www.terracycle.net/

If you want to get involved in other ways then make sure you take your own e-waste to a local drop off center, we found a great site where you can find the closest place to drop off your old electronic products;

http://ewaste-dropoff.com/index.html

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5 Responses to “Waste Electronic Recycling with Terracycle”

  1. Hi Martin,

    You might also be interested in the products that my company (Image Microsystems) makes out of e-waste–right here in Austin, TX. You can read more at http://www.imagemicro.com. We make landscaping pavers and products used in highway/street construction and signage, made out of 100% recycled e-waste. We also employ deaf and special needs workers. In fact, more than 40% of our workfoce is deaf. We recently won the Texas Employment Award from the Governor’s Committee on People with disabilities. You can read about it on my blog here: http://ow.ly/B4D4. Thanks in advance for checking out our products!

    Liz Walker

    • Liz – Thanks for the links, I will certainly take a look at ImageMicro.com, it looks like you do some great work in recycling e-waste… I’m glad you found our site, I will be in contact about perhaps writing an article on how you recycle your e-waste, it looks very interesting & I would love to share it with our readers :)

  2. We are a Houston, Tx basedcomputer recycler and have to say that Terracycle is pretty neat. My thoughts are to first try and donate useable equipment to schools, churchs, and charities. If it is not useable then I know the recyclers here pay a few dollars to actually accumulate, segregate and process in refineries to be re-used in another life cycle somewhere.

  3. hello friend.

    our company are mainly recycle the old projector and old projector lamps.
    if you have them please contact us and talk the details.

    Regards.

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