With the holiday’s, we all know you received the newest technology. New cell phones, new laptops, and new computers.. we want you to know that we are here for you. we can recycle your old cell phone, your old computer and your old printers!
Everyone got new technology for Christmas, but what do you do with the old? bring your old units to one of our 4 convenient locations and for no fee or charge* we will take your old technology and recycle it in an environmentally safe and sound way. Our no landfill policy ensures that your old machines are taken care of the correct way.
Most people received new cell phones, a new Blackberry or a new Android phone, recycle your old phones with us! we will ensure that your old phone or computer is not only wiped of all personal data, but is also recycled in the most environmentally safe way. With our zero landfill policy you can feel safe that your old technology is recycled with the highest standards and does not end up in some landfill. Be sure to use Capitol Asset Recycling for all your electronics recycling needs.
** $20 fee for CRT monitors.

PC RETRO IS OFFERING CHRISTMAS LIGHT RECYCLING!

Do you have a pile of burned-out Christmas lights? Are you replacing your traditional Christmas lights with new energy-efficient lights?

This Christmas season, don’t throw out your old light strands. RECYCLE THEM AT PC RETRO! Our holiday light recycling programs take your old strands and recycle the components that they are made of.

All 4 of our locations (Glen Burnie, Beltsville, Falls Church and Alexandria) will accept holiday light drop offs until at least January 15.

The friendly staff at PC Retro will assist you with the removal of the lights from your vehicle and send you away with a smile.

Happy Holidays!

For the week of November 15, Capitol Asset Recycling and PC RETRO is offering FREE ELECTRONICS RECYCLING at all of its locations in the Washington, DC area.
America Recycles Day is the only nationally recognized day dedicated to the promotion of recycling programs in the UNITED STATES.
Our corporate customers that are in need of pickups will receive a 20% discount off of regular pickup rates if the pickup is booked in the month of NOVEMBER. Act now, and clean out your old storage facilities, offices and basements full of old and unwanted electronic items.
Drop Off locations:

Computer Warehouse
7516 Leesburg Pike
Falls Church, VA 22043

PCRetro- Alexandria
4926-D Eisenhower Ave
Alexandria, VA 22304

PCRetro – Beltsville
5031 Garrett Ave
Beltsville, MD 20705

PCRetro- Glen Burnie
7578 Ritchie Highway
Glen Burnie, MD 21061

Capitol Asset Recycling
10762 Tucker St.
Beltsville, MD 20705

Old cell phones?
Don’t trash or stash them—Recycle!

Did you just get a new cell phone and are wondering what to do with the old one? Rather than adding it to your growing collection of unwanted mobile phones, Recycle it!
Recycling or donating unwanted cell phones, PDAs, chargers, and batteries has never been easier. Any and all components can be brought into one of our Drop-off Centers and can be recycled in the proper, environmentally safe way.

Why Recycle
Protect Your Environment: Recycling or donating cell phones helps the environment by saving energy
and keeping usable materials out of landfills. Cell phones and PDAs are made of precious metals,
copper, and plastics—all of which require energy to mine and manufacture. Recycling not only conserves these materials, but prevents air and water pollution as well as greenhouse gas emissions.

Did you know?
More than 100 million cell phones are no
longer used annually. If we recycled all of
them, we would save enough energy to
power 18,500 U.S. homes for a year!

Prepare for Recycling
Five Important things to remember:
• Terminate your service.
• Clear the phone’s memory of stored
information.
• Conduct a factory hard reset by
following instructions from your
wireless carrier or the product
manual; or
• Use data erasing tools that are
available on the Web.
• Remove your SIM card.
For more information, contact your
network provider, or cell phone manufacturer.

Where to Recycle
You can drop off your old Cell phone, PDA, Cell phone batteries and chargers at any one of our 4 convenient drop off locations:

Computer Warehouse
7516-A Leesburg Pike,
Falls Church, VA 22043

PCRetro- Alexandria
4926-D Eisenhower Ave.
Alexandria, VA 22304

PCRetro- Beltsville
5031 Garrett Ave.
Beltsville, MD 20705

PCRetro – Glen Burnie
7578 Ritchie Highway
Glen Burnie, MD 2106

Regardless of age or model, there is no charge for dropping off these items at one of our locations.

Source: http://www.epa.gov/

The rising stacks of e-waste are the concern of almost all the nations nowadays. It is the biggest issue on the agenda of every environmentalist. The quantity of e-waste is increasing rapidly and estimates have been made that almost 75 percent of obsolete and unused electronic devices are in storage because there is no proper way to get rid of the old and discard material. Discussed below are the e-waste management strategies initiated by manufactures to tackle the problem of e-waste.

1. Dell rolls out e-waste recycling for small businesses

Dell is starting up a new service that will recycle old and unused electronics for small businesses. The program used to wash all the data from the hard drives will cost $25 each of up to 10 pieces of hardware. Companies will also be able to resell their old valuable equipments to Dell. This service is in practice since last September and company’s effort to save environment are being appreciated all over the world. Dell has been registered as one of the nation’s ‘responsible recyclers’ by the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition. This is because they do not transfer their electronic trash to the developing countries for hazardous dismantling rather they recycle it. Making green revolution as its theme and priority, Dell has also started making more energy efficient computers and is planning to plant trees to make up for the carbon emission done by its computers.

2. Nokia launches e-waste management initiative

In an effort to promote recycling of e-waste, Nokia India has initiated an operation where customers can drop their old mobile sets in the company’s stores and win gifts or get concession on purchase of new handsets. This service started from Delhi where various recycling bins were set up across Nokia Care Centers. Customers can drop their used mobile handsets as well as other accessories like charger, battery, headphones, etc., in these bins. This whole operation was dubbed as ‘Take Back’ campaign. Company will also plant a tree for every handset dropped into the recycle bin. The company is planning to make an impact on the society by making its business go green. This practice started by Nokia, will serve as awareness campaign for other companies too and can prove a great help in reducing e-waste.

3. Toshiba steps up e-waste recycling to include copiers

Toshiba is extending its recycling program to include copiers, imagining consumables and toner cartridges, etc. The company witnessed hike of 410% for electronic wastes recycled in 2010 when compared to 2009. The company has named this new campaign as ‘Zero Waste to Landfill’ recycling program. Aim is to provide an easy and efficient service to the businesses to recycle e-wastes. Since 2008, Toshiba works in collaboration with Close the Loop, the company which creates various recycled products like park benches, fences and garden boxes, etc., from recycled plastic.

4. Jidaw Systems Limited Electronic Waste Policy

Jidaw Systems Limited is a company that basically deals in training, consulting and web content provision. Company totally discards the use of heavy electronics and generates very less electronic waste. The company has laid a few e-waste policy objectives and strategies. It includes minimum generation of e-waste and pollution control, dumping of e-waste with no harmful impact on the environment, maintenance of computers/hardware to increase their life, dejecting obsolete computers importation and disposing of electronic waste into Nigeria, encouraging use of recycled products, promoting e-waste recycling and imbibing it completely.

5. Coca-Cola to Spend $3 million for green ppgrades

The world around is going green and in this green race big companies are working hard to leave a positive impact on their customers and the society. Recently Coca-Cola announced $3 million to achieve green upgrades to its headquarters located in Atlanta. The main aim of this green program is to reduce energy consumption in the building by 23% and water consumption by 15%. In this regard, energy efficient lights and air-conditioning equipments are being installed and provisions are being made to harvest rain water. Investment cost will be recovered quickly because company will save $1 million annually by implementing this project. The project is expected to be complete in next one and half year and once operational it will be able to reduce carbon emission by 10,000 metric tons annually.

Source: http://www.waste-management-world.com/index/from-the-wires/wire-news-display/1500590852.html

College Park MOMs is Expanding!
Posted on August 16, 2011 by MOM’s Organic Market

August 19th will be our expansion celebration in College Park. We’re thrilled to be giving our longtime customers here in College Park wider aisles for comfortable shopping and navigation, a gorgeous Produce department (still 100% certified organic – no exceptions, ever), new and efficient bulk bins, a huge & updated selection in the Wellness department, two customer restrooms, and a custom-made Customer Service desk to allow for better traffic flow.

Our customers have been telling us how excited they are for this remodel and we couldn’t agree more (although we’re all ready for it to be done!).

In addition to the more obvious customer-friendly attributes named above, we’re also pleased to provide environmentally-responsible improvements like huge skylights, energy-saving LED lighting that dim according to changes in the sun’s brightness, faux Terrazzo floor that required no new materials, and energy efficient closed-door coolers and freezers with LED lighting. Low VOC paint was used on all new surfaces for a fresh look with no fumes.

As a big thank you to our loyal (and kind and patient) customers, please come by for our celebration weekend starting August 19th!

We’ll have lots of fun for kids like face-painting and games. For grown-ups we’ll have demonstrations by Solar City, goody bag giveaways, raffles and tasty treats. Finally, our favorite event – an E-cycle collection for all your home electronics that will go to Cap Asset for environmentally-responsible recycling. Collection will include everything from computer monitors to calculators, all weekend long. If you need to get rid of it, bring it in! (Don’t let it go to the landfill, please.)

Our regular hours are 9am-9pm everyday except Sundays which are 9am-8pm. We hope to see everyone in PG County there!

http://momsorganicblog.com/2011/08/16/college-park-moms-is-expanding/

Obama Administration Officials and Industry Leaders Unveil Federal Strategy to Promote U.S.-Based Electronics Recycling Market and Jobs

Dell Inc., Sprint and Sony Electronics sign agreement with EPA to encourage certified recycling, protect public health, and support best practices in electronics stewardship

WASHINGTON – At an event today, in Austin, Texas, at a certified electronics recycling center, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, General Services Administrator Martha N. Johnson, and White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley were joined by the CEOs of Dell Inc. and Sprint, and senior executives from Sony Electronics to release the Obama Administration’s “National Strategy for Electronics Stewardship” – a strategy for the responsible electronic design, purchasing, management and recycling that will promote the burgeoning electronics recycling market and jobs of the future here at home. The announcement today includes the first voluntary commitments made by Dell, Sprint and Sony to EPA’s industry partnership aimed at promoting environmentally sound management of used electronics. The Administration’s strategy also commits the federal government to take specific actions that will encourage the more environmentally friendly design of electronic products, promote recycling of used or discarded electronics, and advance a domestic market for electronics recycling that will protect public health and create jobs.

Every year, Americans generate almost 2.5 million tons of used electronics, which are made from valuable resources such as precious metals and rare earth materials, as well as plastic and glass. From computers and cell phones, to portable communication and music devices – United States is, and will continue to be, a global leader in designing and developing new and improved electronic technologies. The responsible management of electronics provides an opportunity to create economic development and jobs by developing a strong domestic electronics recycling market while preventing pollution at home and abroad.

As outlined in the strategy report, the federal government will:
• promote the development of more efficient and sustainable electronic products;
• direct federal agencies to buy, use, reuse and recycle their electronics responsibly;
• support recycling options and systems for American consumers; and
• strengthen America’s role in the international electronics stewardship arena.

Under today’s strategy, GSA will remove products that do not comply with comprehensive and robust energy efficiency or environmental performance standards – from its information technology purchase contracts used by federal agencies, and will ensure that all electronics used by the Federal government are reused or recycled properly. In addition, EPA and GSA will promote development of new environmental performance standards for categories of electronic products not covered by current standards. Several federal agencies will work together to identify methods for tracking used electronics in Federal agencies to move toward reuse and recycling.

A key component of this strategy includes the use of certified recyclers and increasing safe and effective management and handling of used electronics in the United States and working with industry in a collaborative manner to achieve that goal. As a first step in this effort, EPA Administrator Jackson in Austin, TX today signed a voluntary commitment with Dell Inc. CEO Michael Dell and Sprint CEO Dan Hesse to promote a U.S. based electronics recycling market. Sony Electronics Inc. representatives were also present and also committed to improving the safe management of used electronics.

This collaboration with industry aims to encourage businesses and consumers to recycle their electronics with certified recyclers, and for electronic recyclers to become certified. There are two existing domestic third-party certification recycling entities, R2 and E-Stewards. The electronics recycling industry is increasingly embracing these certification programs. Certified recyclers are regularly audited by these certification entities to ensure that electronics are recycled in a manner that is safe for human health and the environment. As the next steps in this collaborative effort, EPA will continue to work with industry to encourage other companies to voluntarily commit to help grow the domestic recycling market, create the green jobs of the future in the United States and educate consumers.

“A robust electronics recycling industry in America would create new opportunities to efficiently and profitably address a growing pollution threat,” said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. “The participation of industry leaders like Dell, Sprint and Sony is absolutely essential to this effort, and will help ensure that the work of the federal government — the largest electronics consumer around — is protecting our people from pollution at the same time we support savings and job creation through e-cycling and re-use of valuable materials.”

“Through a strong federal partnership, and coordination with manufacturers, retailers, recyclers, State and local governments, and other stakeholders, the actions outlined here will help address the potential health and environmental problems caused by the mismanagement of discarded electronics,” said Nancy Sutley, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. “This strategy will encourage the recycling of these valuable resources and allow the U.S. to take advantage of the economic opportunities of remanufacturing and create jobs of the future here in America.”

“The Nation’s largest single consumer of electronics, the Federal Government, will now be the Nation’s most responsible user of electronics. The steps outlined in the report will ensure that government leads by example and that the billions of dollars in IT equipment the government cycles through annually will be either reused or recycled properly,” said GSA Administrator Martha Johnson.

“Our goal at Dell is to deliver the highest quality and most efficient products to our customers with the least environmental impact,” said Michael Dell, chairman and CEO, Dell Inc. “Last fiscal year, we diverted more than 150 million pounds of end-of-life electronics globally from landfills, and we are well on our way to meeting our goal of recycling 1 billion pounds by 2014. We encourage everyone in our industry to commit to easier, more responsible recycling as we all work to protect our planet.”

“To be recognized by the EPA for responsible e-waste recycling is an honor for Sprint and a chance to build on our industry-first Electronics Stewardship Policy,” said Sprint CEO Dan Hesse. “Our current policy and today’s commitment with the EPA highlights our goal to handle electronic waste holistically – from product design to disposal – and is another proof point to our broader commitment to sustainability innovation.”

“At Sony, any product we make and put our name on, we will take back and recycle in the most responsible manner,” said Mark Small, Vice President for Corporate Environment, Safety and Health. “‘We Make It, We Take It Back’ has been Sony’s policy since 1995. This partnership – in coordination with the EPA and other stakeholders – will help us reach our “Road to Zero” goal, Sony’s vision of zero waste and zero environmental impact throughout the complete life cycle of all our products and related activities.”

More information on the EPA and industry collaboration: http://www.epa.gov/electronicsstrategy