EPA Regional Office Holding eCycling Event

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is offering a number of electronics recycling collection events for residents and especially local, state, and federal government employees who live and work in the Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas to encourage them to recycle and reuse their privately-owned computers and other consumer electronics.

"I want to encourage residents, and especially government employees, to recycle their outdated personal computers and electronic equipment. This eCycling collection event in Bethesda is the perfect opportunity to start a new life for the electronics that have been collecting dust in your basement or garage," said Donald Welsh, mid-Atlantic regional administrator.

These eCycling events will take place April 12 in Montgomery County, Md: Bucks County, Pa.; Camden County, N.J.; and Arlington County, Va. and will be open to all residents of these counties. The events will not accept electronics from government agencies, organizations, or businesses.

Since October of 2001, eCycling has collected more than 2,700 tons of electronics from residents in the mid-Atlantic states and has prevented more than 22,000 cathode ray tubes (CRTs) from going into landfills and incinerators.

Government and industry will share the cost to collect, transport, and process the equipment collected during these special eCycling events.

Electronics manufacturers Panasonic, Sharp, and Sony will pay to recycle their respective brands of electronics that are collected during these events.

For more information about this collection event, call Jim Richmond of the Maryland Department of the Environment at 301-791-4787 go to the EPA website at: http://www.epa.gov/reg3wcmd/eCycling.htm.