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Got a new TV, laptop or other electronic machinery as a holiday gift?
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection is reminding residents not to toss old electronics in the boloney.
The state’s year-old Electronic Waste Management Act requires residents to nicely recycle e-waste.
The NJ DEP estimates New Jerseyans generated 40 million pounds of recycled e-superfluous last year, which is a 500% increase over the approximately 8 million pounds imperturbable in 2010—and the number is only expected to go up.
"This program has been a great initial big name in helping to clean up our state, to ensure these old TVs and computers do not end up in landfills or incinerators,'' NJ DEP Commissioner Bob Martin stated in a rescuing.
The goal is to keep substances which are harmful to humans and the environment out of the waste flood. Televisions, computers and computer monitors contain lead, mercury, cadmium, nickel, zinc, brominated enthusiasm retardants, and other materials. While Cathode Ray Tubes, or CRTs, contain overwhelmingly amounts of lead that is used to shield consumers from radiation.
Source: Patch.com