If you’re a technology addict — or if you have one in your household — it’s easy to find yourself overwhelmed by outdated gadgets such as iPods, especially if, like my family, you’ve been buying the little MP3 wonders since they changed the world in 2001.
Yes, Apple offers recycling at Apple stores, including a 10 percent discount on a new iPod that same day.
But yet another recycling option emerged last week when the U.S. Postal Service announced a pilot program that allows consumers to recycle small electronics and inkjet cartridges by mailing them free of charge.
Clover Technologies Group, “a nationally recognized company that recycles, remanufactures and remarkets inkjet cartridges, laser cartridges and small electronics,” will foot the postage bill to bring in extra recycling business.
Though the pilot program will start in only Washington, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles and San Diego, it could expand nationwide.
I know I’ll be keeping an eye out for this program. While there are all sorts of programs that will accept inkjets and other electronics, using the postal service could make the process very, very mainstream.
And that’s a very, very good thing.
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