Town board decides to move forward with e-waste collection service

E-waste Recycling  |  2013-04-01 13:19:01   |   By

The Town board has decided to go ahead with Regional Computer Recycling & Recovery (RCR&R) of Victor, N.Y. to collect electronic waste.

NEW YORK (Scrap Monster) : The Town board has decided to go ahead with Regional Computer Recycling & Recovery (RCR&R) of Victor, N.Y. to collect electronic waste.

Officials have agreed to a proposal advanced by Town Board member Dan Welsh to add electronic waste collection to the town’s recycling center, located behind the Town House on Main Street in South Salem.As per the agreement, the vendor will provide a standard 20-foot container to use for recycling.

Items that may be disposed of include computers, televisions, small-scale servers, monitors, keyboards, fax machines, scanners and printers, VCRs, DVRs and DVD players, portable digital music players, digital converter boxes, cable or satellite receivers, and electronic or video game consoles.

Also accepted are UPS battery backups, typewriters, telephones and cell phones, telecommunications equipment, circuit boards, ink cartridges, electric motors, AV equipment, radios and speakers, cameras, rechargeable power tool batteries, and miscellaneous electronics.

The date of container installation will be provided later.

Since 1995, Regional Computer Recycling & Recovery (RCR&R) has provided custom electronics recycling services to over 7000 clients nationwide, and has become the premier vendor of choice for numerous businesses, government, medical, and educational organizations who require special data security compliance services as mandated by legislation such as HIPAA, FACTA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and Sarbanes-Oxley.

As a founding member of the International Association of Electronics Recyclers, RCR&R has served as a pioneer in setting best-of-class standards in the industry. The company operates a large-scale processing, consolidation, sorting, and first level demanufacturing facility in Victor, New York (Rochester) and emphasizes environmentally sound processing methods for maximizing value and recovery while minimizing and/or eliminating disposal of electronics in landfills.