ElectroniCycle Chosen by Mass. Labor Dept. for Job Training

ElectroniCycle Inc. has been selected by the Massachusetts Department of Labor to provide job training in electronics repair and reuse.

ElectroniCycle Inc., the Northeast's largest TV and post-consumer electronics repair and recycling organization, has achieved the highest repair and reuse rates in the electronics recycling industry, allowing the company to cut recycling costs to government and industry without compromising environmental policy.

"Every electronic component we can reuse reduces the cost of recycling," said Robin Ingenthron, ElectroniCycle vice-president. "Technical skill is our biggest limitation." The state was looking for companies to provide workforce training. "It turns out the people we are hiring on our recycling line are exactly the people whom the state wants to offer new skills to."

The contract will provide over $80,000 to ElectroniCycle and its employees over a two-year period. ElectroniCycle will use the funds to teach employees more about the TVs, radios, computers, and monitors they are tearing apart for recycling. Employees will first learn the names and functions of different components -- many of which can be tested and reused as replacement parts. Employees will have the option to continue training, test parts, and even become journeymen or "Master Technicians".