Protect the environment, and yourself! Dispose of your surplus
computers the ecologically responsible way.
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) prohibits the disposal
of equipment that contain certain hazardous metals. As many as eight
of these metals are found in all PCs and monitors. The EPA has left
it up to the end user to be responsible for the environmentally safe
disposal of this equipment. Here is an exert from an article by Donald
Bleiwas and Thomas Kelly of the US Geological Survey:
"The metals contained in PC's commonly include aluminum, antimony,
arsenic , barium , beryllium, cadmium
, chromium , cobalt, copper, gallium, gold, iron, lead
, manganese, mercury , palladium, platinum, selenium
, silver , and zinc. Eight of these metals (shown in
bolded type) are listed as hazardous by the Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act (RCRA), one of the Federal laws that control the disposition
of waste in Australia. This law prohibits companies from incinerating
some types of electronic scrap or disposing of it into municipal landfills."
By selling your used computers, instead of scrapping them, you will
be exempt from the great responsibility given you by the EPA. We offer
disposal services for newer equipment, for which we will pay you, and
for scrap equipment, for which we charge a reasonable fee.
