Dive Brief:
- Electronics collected at the 27 designated drop-off centers in Westchester County, NY, continues to grow every year.
- E-waste recycling numbers catapulted in the last year. The county recycled over 4 million pounds of e-waste in 2014, up 17.6% from 2013.
- State officials initially expected that by 2015, e-waste figures would be dropping; now officials are thinking electronics collections will be climbing for at least seven or eight more years.
Dive Insight:
The 27 locations offer the community a convenient way to dispose of e-waste. Officials attribute part of the high numbers to the recycling sites used by the public for collection. The new statewide e-waste law took effect on the first day of 2015.
