Some Facts about Recycling:

"Today, two computers become obsolete for every three purchased. By 2005, the ratio will be 1 to 1, which means that we should be able to recycle computers as fast as we make them. For this reason, recycling must be treated like any regular manufacturing task." [D. Navin- Chandra, Carnegie-Mellon University, Fortune Magazine, February 6, 1995]

Out of 175 million computers comes a laundry list of toxins including 650 million pounds of lead, 987,000 pounds of cadmium and 231,000 pounds of mercury [Goldsmith Group - Recycling Facts, 2003].

According to University of Florida tests, color monitors contain enough lead to contaminate ground water if deposited in landfills. "Those monitors would fail the legal standards of leaching lead," said Susan Mooney of the EPA, Region 5 (Chicago).

Beginning on April 1, 2000, the Department of Environmental Protection (Massachusetts) will prohibit the disposal of cathode ray tubes (CRTs) from television and computer monitors at all Massachusetts solid waste disposal facilities (310-CMR 19.017).

A similar law in Japan will become fully enforceable early in 2001 [Goldsmith Group - Recycling Facts, 2003].