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Sell your Electronic Waste at eBay-Rethink

Via: Phil Shapiro's DDN Blog: "ebay pushes computer recycling initiative"

eBay announced that they were supporting a new program called RETHINK to encourage consumers and companies alike to recycle more of the roughly 400 million electronic products that get through away every year.

The new site, available at www.ebay.com/rethink will be a central location where consumers can resell, recycle or donate used electronics.

The program is a massive step in the tech industry which has largely ignored the problems inherent in disposing of the toxic materials that make up computer parts, says Ted Smith, senior strategist for the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition.

"There is a growing awareness of the magnitude of the problem, and we'd rather have an industry-driven solution than a government one," Intel CEO Craig Barrett says. The No. 1 chipmaker will help create advertising campaigns promoting reuse and recycling of computers. "EBay is a powerful way to spread the message" to its 125 million users, Barrett says.

I need to sell my hp laptop through this, this has been lying arround from the time its power adapter broke.

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at January 10, 2005 11:53 AM Perma Link