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Waste Management and LG Electronics Corporation
“LG Take-Back”
Companies Announce Comprehensive U.S.
Take-Back and Recycling Program
LG Electronics, in partnership with Waste Management Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, WM Recycle America, LLC, announces the LG Take-Back program, a national recycling program for post-consumer electronics.
The LG Take-Back program covers the LG, Zenith, and GoldStar brands of televisions, monitors, audio equipment, video cassette players and recorders, DVD players and recorders, combination TV/VCR and TV/DVD units, set top boxes, and accessories associated with those products. The program gives LG customers a free and convenient way to recycle up to five LG products per day by dropping them off at designated Waste Management eCycling Drop-Off Centers throughout the country. Waste Management currently has 160 electronic recycling collection centers throughout the U.S. and will have one in every state by the end of 2008. Consumers also have the option of shipping their used LG electronic products to select Waste Management locations.
As the technology industry sees continued growth, the amount of electronic waste is also increasing. A study by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency showed that in 2005, used or unwanted electronics amounted to approximately 1.9 to 2.2 million tons. Of that, about 1.5 to 1.9 million tons were primarily discarded in landfills, and only 345,000 to 379,000 tons were recycled. By recycling old electronic products, useful materials such as glass, plastic, copper wiring – even precious metals – can be collected and re-used in the manufacturing of other products. Recycling not only minimizes the amount of waste needed for disposal, it also minimizes the extraction of new raw materials from the earth and resources required for processing.
LG mobile phone and other handheld devices, as well as LG home appliances are covered by other take-back and recycling programs. Note that you may drop off any brand of cell phone, GPS unit or PDA device at any of the WM Recycle America drop off points; Waste Management will ship those items to LG Electronics’ recycler for recycling.
Locate the nearest recycling center to you or call 1-877-439-2795.
If you would like to mail your LG, Goldstar or Zenith brand consumer electronics product to us for no-fee recycling, please send it to the closest WM Recycle America eCycling center below:
Mailing Locations
1800 Broadway NE |
Minneapolis |
MN |
55413 |
3730 East 48th Street |
Denver |
CO |
80216 |
5519 NW 4th St |
Oklahoma City |
OK |
73127 |
203 Tremont Street |
Springfield |
MA |
01107 |
