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Article: Orders swamp export group.(ELECTRONICS RECYCLING)(Brief Article)
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- Recycling Today
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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The World Reuse, Repair and Recycling Association (WR3A), a non-profit trade association of recycling professionals, has announced that it is unable to meet worldwide purchase orders for quality used electronics equipment.
In its first month, WR3A got purchase orders for 130,000 used, non-working but repairable computer monitors. An additional 20,000 working monitors have been requested.
WR3A expects even more requests for working and quality repairable equipment in the months to come.
Students with the recycling program at the University of California-Davis have been translating the WR3A's Web site (www.wr3a.org) into Chinese.
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