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DTV Countdown - Report 29

Reported by: Pat Greenwood
Email: pgreenwood@local15tv.com
Contributor: Pat Greenwood
Last Update: 9/26/2008 11:11 am
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(Mobile, Ala) - Sept. 15 - So you have your old TV, and because of the chemicals inside you can't toss it into a landfill.

What do you do?

Equit-E-Cycle in Mobile will take it for a small fee.

"We tried to get the word out," says Bill Evatt of Equit-E-Cycle.  "We're trying to get it out to the general public now. They can bring there TVs here. We do have a $20 charge and that is a fee that we're passing along because we have to pay that fee to have it processed and have those undesirable elements taken out of them."

The process is simple.  Equit-E-Cycle is basically a shipping point between you and the recycling plant.

'We just assume that it is bad," says Evatt.  "We don't test them or anything. We cut the cords off them, we palatize them we shrink wrap them and they're shipped to a facility in atlanta where they're processed, they're shredded and all different elements are recycled from there.  If it goes to the landfill it never goes away, and that's one thing we're stressing to the public is that electronics do not biodegrade and they'll be there for your children and your children's children."

The company, based in the Brookley Complex, also recycles used electronics of any kind, from computers, to monitors to cell phones.




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