HP Recycling Center

June 14th, 2007 Alex

 The Hewlett-Packard Recycling Center in Roseville, California is where HP sends all its old monitors and computer parts for recycling. The facility processes 4 million pounds or 24,000 tons of hardware a month. HP has been recycling parts since 1987 but in 1997, the Roseville plant opened as the first electronics shredding plant. Parts are taken apart and separated for shredding while the hazardous materials such as mercury bulbs in in CRTs are taken out to be melted elsewhere. Some parts are shipped away to be reused in new computers while other parts are used to make new products such as auto body parts, toys, etc. So your next Honda could actually have parts that used to be part of a computer or monitor.

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