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 CACRC introduces My Homework Computer! Louisiana families asked us for a lower priced computer solution for their children, and once again, we came through. For a limited time, we are offering a complete Pentium 4 system including CRT monitor, keyboard, and mouse for the low price of $50! Upgrades available. If you're not able to make it to our Baton Rouge office, ask us about statewide shipping. Visit ComputersForFamilies.org for more information!
Congratulations to our top 2009 E-Recyclers! The Ascension Parish School Board's efforts helped save enough electricity to power 177 US Households for one year, and remove greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those produced by 125 passenger cars in one year. Willis-Knighton Health Systems of Shreveport e-recycling saved enough electricity to power 98 US Households for one year, and remove greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those produced by 69 passenger cars in one year. Iberia Bank of Lafayette helped save enough electricity to power 43 US Households for one year, and remove greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those produced by 31 passenger cars in one year. Be the next top E-Recycler in Louisiana. Call the CACRC today!
Please note our new fee schedule for equipment dropoffs for 2010. All dropoffs are subject to the new fee schedule. For pickups at businesses, we also have a new 24-hour cancellation policy detailed below.
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"The Capital Area Corporate Recycling Council is a nonprofit organization which promotes waste reduction and the use of recycled goods through leadership and education programs for public and private entities."
The CACRC is able to provide a way for individuals and businesses to lower their carbon footprint. The energy required to produce a new computer could run an old computer for 10 years. Recycling a computer system is same as taking 1/2 car off the road and saving 68% of household allotment of energy for a year. |
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New fees for 2010:
From the Executive Director, Nancy Jo Craig:
Due to the economic downturn, recycling - from electronics to paper - is in a tail spin. There has also been an increase in the high cost of properly recycling material. For the past ten years the CACRC has recycled the electronic waste of the community and state as a free service. Unfortunately, we now have to charge a processing fee on certain items. Most items will still remain free to recycle. Items that will have a recycling fee include:
Individuals:
Monitors (Fees apply to CRTs only): $5.00
Physicallly broken CRTs (cracked outer casing): $6.00
Printers, faxes and scanners :$3.00
Businesses:
Monitors (Fees apply to CRTs only): $7.00
Physicallly broken CRTs (cracked outer casing): $8.00
Printers, faxes and scanners :$3.00
For individuals dropping off equipment please come to the front office first to pay for the items and receive a ticket for the warehouse. Call if you have any questions prior to coming: (225) 379-3577.
Businesses will be invoiced upon pick-up or drop-off. As of 2010, there is a new 24-hour cancellation policy in place for pick-ups: Any business wishing to cancel a pick-up must provide 24 hours notice prior to the scheduled time of pick-up, otherwise they will be billed for our driver's mileage. Thank you for understanding! Please call our office for any further information.
Remember that by recycling your computer system you are:
* Saving as much energy as taking 1/2 car off the road and saving 68% of household allotment of energy for a year.
* Preventing hazardous material from impacting the enviroment.
* Helping your community with the computers we refurbish for schools, non-profits, and low income families.
Thanks! We appreciate your support.
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Experts estimate that our country will have over 400 million obsolete computers. In addition to computers there are discarded cellphones, palm pilots, I-pods, the list goes on and on. Today only 13% of these obsolete computers and electronics are recycled or reused. The rest may end up in landfills, with electronic waste becoming a leading source of environmental hazard and the fastest growing part of our waste stream. Louisiana is a state with one of the highest poverty rates for children, many without the resources to afford a computer. The CACRC is a nonprofit designed to meet these challenge head on and reuse discarded computers for schools, nonprofits, low income families, the general public, while recycling the electronics that cannot be fixed. |
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According to CompuMentor's Jim Lynch:
"from an environmental standpoint, it is best to reuse computers an extra two or three years than to recycle their components. Over each computer's life cycle, reselling or upgrading computers saves 5 or 20 times more energy than recycling. The cost in material for producing a computer and monitor is immense, especially microprocessors. The average 53-pound desktop computer and monitor requires 530 pounds of fossil fuels, 50 pounds of chemicals and 3,330 tpounds of water - 1.8 metric tons in all. It takes thousands of chemicals to make a computer. The total energy used per year of owning a computer is roughly the same as a refrigerator, the most expensive home appliance in terms of cost of ownership. It's far better for the environment to hang on to a computer if possible for an extra couple of years than to recycle it and buy a new one every 3 to 4 years."
Reuse and recycling reduce the negative impacts of mining and processing of raw material, including the impacts on habitat, water, and air quality. Reuse and recycling of electronics also avoids the need for plastic production and precious metal mining for circuit boards. |
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