Computer recycling methods practiced by the states

Computer recycling is either the reuse or the dismantling and recycling of computer and its electronic parts. The dismantling is done in a safe way so as to enable the reuse of the various parts in other products. Computers become obsolete at a rate far exceeding other electronics items. It is an environmental risk and many states have adopted different practices for its safe disposal and recycle.

Computer recycling in Maine is under the Maine Hazardous Waste Management Regulations. Computer has heavy metals like cadmium, arsenic and mercury. These are dangerous compounds and can pose as health hazards if not handled with a lot of precaution. The Universal Waste provisions of the rules in Maine have specific standards of management for the computer wastes. It is not legal to throw unused computer along with trash. Maine?s Shared Responsibility system has the consumer, manufacturers and the municipality working in unison to make sure that computer parts like the monitors and the processors are recycled in an environmentally safe manner.

Computer recycling in MA follows similar procedures where in municipalities of New England collects the electronic wastes. Massachusetts has legislation in place forbidding the entry of the hazardous wastes into landfills. April 2000 saw Massachusetts adopting the approach of reusing and recycling computer monitors and banning disposal of cathode ray tubes in MA landfills due to the high content of lead in them.