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State agency collects 630 million pounds of e-waste.

Publication: San Diego Business Journal
Publication Date: 25-MAY-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: State agency collects 630 million pounds of e-waste.(electronic waste)(Integrated Waste Management Board)(Report)

Article Excerpt
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 program...

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