Category: News Room

The Paso Robles Event Center will host a free computer and electronics recycling event Friday & Saturday

The event center, in conjunction with Electronic Recyclers, will accept old and outdated electronic equipment, including televisions, computers, monitors, office equipment, cell phones, VCRs, stereo equipment, fax machines, microwaves and small kitchen appliances.Items that will not be accepted are batteries, large kitchen appliances and smoke detectors.The event at the center takes place from 8 a.m. […]

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E-recycling helps Bohn playground

Bohn Elementary will gather and recycle electronic waste to raise money for a new playground.Recyclables will be collected from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday in the Grocery Outlet parking lot, 825 11th Street.Bohn Elementary has teamed up with Electronic Recyclers, a Fresno-based company. The school hopes to raise a total of $1,200 in this […]

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Electronic Recyclers Donates $25,000 to Gang Prevention Initiative

Fresno Mayor Alan Autry and Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer called a press conference today, to announce a major donation to the Mayor’s Gang Prevention Initiative and to highlight a local business that is leading the way to ending gang violence by giving ex-gang members a “hand-up” and not a “hand-out.”Electronic Recyclers Chairman and CEO, […]

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Valley business offers second chances

Jason Carter walks with his head held high these days. There was a time when the ink on his body was a source of regret; a painful reminder of the bad decisions he has made in the past, of what could have been a lifetime of closed doors.“I had just gotten out of prison. I […]

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Students to collect electronic waste

Students at Louis Bohn Elementary School in Tracy will be collecting electronic waste from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. next Saturday in the Grocery Outlet parking lot at 825 W. 11th St. in Tracy.The students are teaming up with Fresno-based Electronic Recyclers to give residents an opportunity to recycle electronic equipment such as televisions, computer […]

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Electronic Recyclers, Inc. CEO John S. Shegerian Named to ATHGO Advisory Board

John S. Shegerian, Chairman and CEO of Electronic Recyclers, Inc. (ERI), has been named to the Board of Advisors of ATHGO (Alliance Toward Harnessing Global Opportunities).ATHGO, a member of UN Global Compact, was established in 1999 to bring next generation thinking directly to current decision-makers by promoting active participation among students and young entrepreneurs. The […]

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New definition for trash TV

David Sullivan’s 1987 Sony TV was broken and collecting dust for years, a remnant of sitcoms from seasons past. Because the TV contained lead, state law prohibited him from throwing it in the garbage. Inertia kept him from calling someone to cart it away. So Sullivan kept the television until Oct. 13, when he found […]

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Electronic Recyclers Gives Tour to Cal State University Fresno Class

John S. Shegerian, Chairman and CEO of Electronic Recyclers, Inc. (ERI), led a group of Cal State University Fresno students on a tour of his facility today. The students and their professor, all part of CSUF’s “Marketing 132 – Entrepreneur Marketing” class, were shown behind the scenes at ERI, where tons of electronic waste are […]

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Industry faces e-scrap tidal wave with HDTV requirements in 2009

The world is awash in electronic waste and faces an even greater tidal wave of such obsolete equipment when the federal government’s new rules mandating high-definition television (HDTV) broadcasting are implemented in 2009, an electronics recycling executive said.“With all the new technology that keeps making our existing devices obsolete, we are in the midst of […]

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E-Waste: The Final Frontier

So you’ve just returned from an electronic waste recycling event after unloading your old computers, cell phones and televisions. But what happens next to ensure that as little of these products gets placed in a landfill as possible?Many of us have probably seen a cube of aluminum cans ready to be reformed into new aluminum […]

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