4,000 lbs of Electronics Recycling

In a collective effort the Environmental Club co-president, Steve Wright, Mr. Carroll’s Environmental Science Classes, members of the Maintenance Department, and Mr. Delaney filled up two school vans with over 4,000 lbs of T.V.’s, computer monitors, hard drives, and a long list of other electronics for drop off at MeTech International, a world leader in management and recycling of electronic materials with a 32 million pounds per year capacity, located along the historic Blackstone River.

In 2007, the United States placed an estimated 500 million PC’s (11 million tons) into the “waste” management stream. Metech performs reuse, recovery, and reclamation of parts whereby precious, ferrous, and toxic metals (cadmium, arsenic, lead, etc.) as well as plastic, glass, and cardboard are recycled, burned for energy, or isolated and manged as hazordous waste, The end result is a dramatic reduction in air/soil/water pollution, deforestation, strip mining impacts, and fossil fuel and energy consumption. For more information on Metech go to www.metech-arm.com and www.waenvironment.wordpress.com/category/waste.