E-waste recycling is state’s new push
The California Integrated Waste Management Board has kicked off a new statewide program to educate the public about how to properly dispose of unwanted electronic equipment.E-waste is the term for electronic products nearing the end of their “useful life.”Businesses are a key component of the e-waste education campaign, says Jon Myers, communications director for the […]
Corporate America is Big on PC Recycling
How does Corporate America get rid of their surplus PCs?Environmentalists and public officials are beginning to see that they need some unified plan and that allowing people to toss PCs and peripherals in with their trash is not a good idea.The “Environmental Protection Agency estimates that people threw away 2.5 millions tons of electronic equipment, […]
Recycling companies see big growth from subsidized program
John Shegerian credits the explosive growth of his Fresno company to a temporary state program that subsidizes companies that recycle TV sets and computer monitors.Next month, final regulations will replace the temporary program, which may have kept more than 100 million pounds of electronics — and the lead, heavy metals and other hazards they contain […]
The Kern County Fair and BARC Invite the Community to Recycle Electronics
WHAT: This coming Saturday and Sunday, October 28th and 29th, the Kern County Fair, the Bakersfield Association for Retarded Citizens (BARC) and Kern County are joining together to give residents an opportunity to safely unload their old computers, television sets and other outdated, unusable or unwanted electronic items for proper recycling and get rid of […]
Recycle e-waste to protect water supply
Rapid technology growth has spawned a whole new sub-industry in California: e-waste recycling. According to the state’s Integrated Waste Management Board, California is more vulnerable to the toxins contained in electronic waste – including mercury and lead – seeping into the groundwater supply than any other state because of the way California preserves water.California already […]
Electronics Recyclers: Keeping E-Waste Out of California
John Shegerian, a serial entrepreneur, founded Electronic Recyclers of Fresno, CA in 2002 when he realized that the explosion of high-tech had a largely untold story as its downside. Industrial waste associated with its manufacture was attaining unmanageable proportions. With the exponential increase in consumer products built around high-technology in the U.S., societies the world […]
Computers, cell phones should be recycled
A device most Americans use once or twice a day has enough lead to poison a year’s worth of drinking water for 957 Escondido households. Another device that entertains many North County residents before bedtime has enough to ruin the water supply of four times that many households. The two devices are the average computer […]
Electronic Recyclers Announces Record Recycling Totals at Growth Conference.
John S. Shegerian, President and CEO of Electronic Recyclers, California’s largest recycler of electronic waste, announced today that his company last month became the first organization in California’s history to recycle five million pounds of electronic waste in a one-month period.As one of only twenty private companies invited to present today at the ThinkEquity Partners […]
Florida, others mulling electronics recycling bills
Florida, Colorado, New York, Pennsylvania and other states are thinking of passing bills that would require people who sell electronics to impose a recycling fee on consumers at the time of purchase, according to a CEO of one of the major recyclers.The bills are largely based around a bill passed in California that put a […]
John Shegerian to speak at The Milken Institute’s State of The State Conference 2006
View John’s biography on The Milken Institute’s website.