Electronic Recycling

I tease my husband all the time about his penchant for recycling. I've actually nicknamed him Recylco, like a superhero recycler. I recycle, but I can be a lazy recycler. If I use up the last of the peanut butter or mayonaise or something similarly sticky or messy, I may "accidentally" just throw the jar in the trash instead of trying to clean out the gunk so I can recycle it. Recyclo will come behind me and remove the jar from the trash and look at me with a raised eyebrow pointed in my direction. Now I have to make sure the jar is buried under something to disguise it...like some dark coffee grinds or something. {Just kidding, honey!}

This summer, I was especially impressed with the Adventures of Recyclo! While I was at a training, he decided to get rid of some old electronics that were taking up tons of storage space. Our city has an electronic recycling program, but it's only a drop off once a year. We needed to get rid of this stuff over the summer when we actually had the time, so Recylo did some research and found out that Best Buy has a fantastic electronic recycling program. Go Recylco!

You can basically load up your car, drive to Best Buy, drop off your useless old electronic crap and leave it there! The pix above were from the third trip we took. In all we got rid of a TV, a couple of VCR's, 4 computers, a scanner and 2 printers - and maybe some other stuff I'm forgetting. Hubs removed the hard drives from the computers first. He's got the skills for that, but you can google how-to videos if you're not sure. I don't know if that's a requirement, but it feels safer to do that.

Best Buy also had an impressive recycling container that you see above for wires, ink cartridges, gift cards, bags, CD's & batteries. Nice, right?

You can find out more about the program {HERE}. There's even a cool video that shows what happens to your stuff after it's recycled.

Remember to recycle - you never know who's watching...