How easily you might recycle electronic waste depends on where you live. Rising fees and far-off facilities contribute to TVs tossed in the trash, roadside sights of computers in ditches and stories about the smashing and burning of electronics in backyards.
That’s a troubling trend to the people who understand the hazards.
“More municipalities need to provide some way of educating their citizens, and make the recycling more affordable,” says Jay Scholz, the IT manager at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. Scholz, when he’s not offering tech support in Science Hall, is an advocate for electronics recycling. He volunteered to take care of the e-waste that had accumulated at Nelson.
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