Small Dog Electronics Offers Free Recycling for iPod Batteries and Hard Drives
Waitsfield, VT- Small Dog Electronics announced today that it is expanding
its e-Waste Take Back program to include free recycling for iPod batteries
and hard drives.
For customers to recycle old iPod batteries, Small Dog Electronics will
include a pre-labeled return envelope and instructions in orders of
replacement iPod batteries. Shipping and return instructions will be
included with orders of ATA hard drives. Customers can send the old
batteries and hard drives back to Small Dog Electronics, which will dispose
of them properly. Recycling services are free (a value of $0.25 per pound);
customers are responsible for postage only.
“Discarded batteries and old electronic waste are serious environmental
issues. Small Dog is a company that wants to make it easy for our customers
to deal responsibly with their old electronics and used batteries and we’ve
expanded our e-Waste Take Back program to help them do so with even more
products,” said Don Mayer, CEO of Small Dog Electronics. “It truly is a
shared responsibility to protect our planet for future generations.”
Small Dog Electronics is a leading specialty retailer of personal computers
and accessories, consumer electronics and software, launched its e-Waste
Take Back program in 2004 to great success. To date it has recycled more
than 10,467 lbs of electronics.
E-Waste is the fastest growing stream of trash in the US. Small Dog
Electronics’ e-Waste Take Back Program at its Waitsfield showroom accepts
televisions, computers and peripherals, cell phones, digital cameras,
digital music players, monitors, printers, and now iPod batteries and hard
drives. As a public service, Small Dog Electronics is offering to take back
old electronics at their Route 100 Waitsfield showroom for $0.25 per pound,
their cost to recycle electronics properly. The cost for most computers is
$5 -10.
Small Dog Electronics is a leading specialty retailer of personal computers
and accessories, consumer electronics and software found online at
(http://www.smalldog.com)http://www.smalldog.com and at its showroom in
Waitsfield, Vermont. Small Dog Electronics is the top Apple Computer
reseller in New England with more than $20 million in sales and is known
for its social and workplace policies, which includes offering electronics
recycling.