Texas TV TakeBack Recycling bill signed into law

Recently Gov. Rick Perry signed the TV TakeBack Recycling bill into law.  The new Texas law requires television manufacturers to take back and recycle old sets in an effort to keep toxic materials including lead and mercury out of landfills and water.

An estimated 25 million TVs are disposed of each year in the U.S., according to the Stacy Guidry, program director for the Texas Campaign for the Environment, an Austin-based statewide organization focused on recycling and trash issues. Old-style cathode ray tube TVs contain several pounds of lead, while most new flat-screen TVs contain mercury bulbs, she said.

Here at CompuCycle we are elated to finally have laws that enforces the ideology we have maintained all along, that electronics do not belong in landfills, especially TVs.  We look forward to seeing legislation to come that requires responsible recycling of all electronics.

To read more about What Texas’ new television recycling law means for consumers, click here. 

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CompuCycle’s Clive Hess and Denia Mejia Teach Houston Schoolchildren about e-Waste

At the Turn In Your Tube event in Houston, Texas, on June 12, CompuCycle’s Commercial Vice President Clive Hess and Procurement Officer Denia Mejia taught over 500 children a little bit more about the electronics they use in their home every day.

Did you know that a 36″ TV with a weight of 119 pounds has the following material make-up:

• Plastic – 20 lbs.
• Boards – 5 lbs.
• Speakers – 1 lb.
• Wire – 4 lbs.
• Yoke & Neck – 1 lb.
• CRT Glass – 88 lbs. (Remember, CRT glass contains an average 6 to 8 pounds of lead!)

Stopping by our booth was Harris County Commissioner Sylvia Garcia, our partner in the preceeding day’s press conference to push for mandatory TV manufacturer recycling programs.

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