Remember when mom made you take out the trash? Bet you never had to move 500,000 pounds of it. That’s the amount of consumer e-waste Samsung helped recycle in just two days in Luzerne County, PA. No wonder the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection state and county officials recently honored Samsung Electronics America for a job well done. Better put a gold star on that chore chart, Mom, because 500,000 pounds of electronic devices fill more recycling bins than any single household can hold.
After collecting used and abused electronic goods from more than 200 U.S. drop-off locations over the past 6+months, Samsung dove knee-deep into the e-waste on June 6 and June 13 for the largest 2-day consumer recycling event of its kind on the East coast. All in all, Samsung has collected more than 5 million pounds of electronics through their recycling program. No small potatoes, mind you – actually, not even big potatoes – instead, those 5 million pounds consisted of tons (literally tons) of VCRs, TVs, computers, camcorders, CD players, mobile phones, answering machines, microwaves, printers, pagers, and radios.
Now, as cool as this was, our Mama always taught us that cleaning up after ourselves was great, but cleaning up before the mess was made is even better. Well, Samsung makes Mama very proud indeed; in addition to its commitment to recycling, Samsung works hard to create some of the most energy-efficient consumer electronics available. Fancy this: more than 600 Samsung products are rated as energy efficient through the U.S. EPA’s ENERGY STAR® program and, in April 2009, Samsung was honored for Excellence in Product Labeling from the U.S. EPA and DOE’s ENERGY STAR program. In fact, the March 2009 Greenpeace ranked Samsung second in its “Guide to Greener Electronics Report,” a guide that listed the 17 top manufacturers of personal computers, mobile phones, TVs and games consoles according to their policies on toxic chemicals, recycling, and climate change.
But then again, Mama also taught us not to brag…
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