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Article: State agency collects 630 million pounds of e-waste.(electronic waste)(Integrated Waste Management Board)(Report)
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- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- May 25, 2009
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The state's Integrated Waste Management Board recently crowed about its accomplishments in 2008, issuing an annual report on its various recycling and education programs.
Last year, when the free-falling economy in October hammered e-waste collectors having to cope with plummeting prices for plastic, steel and copper, many recyclers were forced out of business. But the state agency drew a happy face on its statewide e-waste recycling efforts.
The e-waste program achieved a milestone during 2008 by exceeding 600 million pounds of obsolete television sets and computer monitors that have been collected and recycled since the covered electronics collection ...