ElectroniCycle, Recycle America Alliance Ink Deal

ElectroniCycle Inc. has signed a contract to provide electronics recycling services for Recycle America Alliance, L.L.C., a subsidiary of Waste Management, Inc. The two companies will collect and recycle TVs and computers across a ten state region in the Northeast.

Under the new contract, Waste Management’s Recycle America Alliance and ElectroniCycle, based in Gardner, Mass., will jointly offer eCycling services in Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Maryland and Vermont. The partnership strengthens Recycle America Alliance’s position as a coast-to-coast electronics recycling service, while expanding ElectroniCycle’s market to five more states.

Under the plan, ElectroniCycle will provide demanufacturing services for materials collected in these ten states by RAA. Both companies will work together on marketing the commodities to end markets.

Obsolete televisions, VCRs and computer equipment are the fastest growing component of municipal solid waste. CRTs have been banned from disposal in Massachusetts and California, and illegal dumping is a growing concern for environmental officials.

"This is an important step towards a national infrastructure for electronics recycling," stated Kevin McCarthy, Director of Electronics Recycling for Recycle America Alliance. "We are excited join with such an environmentally responsible and cost effective company.”

"This partnership will lead to more efficient electronics recycling options in the

northeast," says Dick Peloquin, president of ElectroniCycle, Inc. "Recycle America Alliance shares our standards of environmental stewardship, and will bring those services to more people."

ElectroniCycle Inc. is an official cathode ray tube recycling contractor for Massachusetts, which established the first CRT waste ban in April 2000. ElectroniCycle has grown to manage electronics for dozens of other state and local governments, with ongoing TV and computer recycling programs in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New York.

Recycle America Alliance’s eCycling service is a national provider of electronics-recycling. The company has programs underway in more than 20 states.

Waste Management, Inc. has more than 60  sites nationwide that are currently handling electronics for recycling.

The RAA operates four electronics processing facilities in Phoenix; Houston; Minneapolis; and Kernersville, N.C. and a nonferrous scrap metal facility in Long Branch, N.J. 

Recycle America Alliance also has a service partnership with E-Recycling of Southern California.