The holidays are always the best time of the year to take advantage of computer and electronics sales. But then afterward most of us are faced with a post-holiday dilemma: How do we dispose of our old, unwanted computers and electronics?

The Southland's leading electronics waste provider and the City of Inglewood will join forces once again this year to provide business owners and residents a safe and efficient way to dispose of their old, unwanted electronics.

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The new computers and electronic gadgets snapped up during the holiday shopping frenzy are mostly destined to replace older gear.

The castoffs that aren’t handed down, donated or kept as backups tend to end up in local landfills.

But how does one actually recycle the stuff—with a guarantee it won’t be shipped off to Asia and melted down into a toxic stew of heavy metals that will threaten people and the environment there?

After years of the problem growing steadily worse, help is on the horizon.

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Saturday, December 16th, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Hope Station thrift store
39418 Fremont Blvd.
Fremont, Calif.

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Newer Technology Inc. (NewerTech) makes proper battery disposal easy by including a Free Return Shipping Label with every NuPower laptop replacement battery sold. As an added measure of convenience, no extra packaging materials are needed as that the NuPower battery box is designed to be reusable for the battery disposal return.

By making it as simple as taking the NuPower battery out of the box, putting the expired battery from the laptop in, and affixing the prepaid return shipping label, NewerTech continues its leading position in providing a no-cost means for customers to ensure that old PowerBook and iBook batteries are properly disposed of and that recoverable materials are responsibly recycled.

"NewerTech is proud to provide the Mac community the highest capacity and longest lasting Powerbook and iBook batteries available," said Grant Dahlke, Marketing Manager of Newer Technology, Inc. "NewerTech is just as proud to lead the way by making proper environmentally-friendly laptop battery recycling/disposal a no-cost option for our customers."

NewerTech's battery return programs assure proper recycling of recoverable materials and prevent toxic elements from leeching into land and groundwater. Further, every NewerTech battery currently in production is manufactured Mercury-free. And, NewerTech's line of Intelligent Battery Charger/Conditioners extend the useful life of Apple, NewerTech, or third party laptop batteries, reducing the number of batteries consumers need to discard.

NewerTech also proactively hosts information on its website for local disposal options available to technology users. Information on the no-cost NewerTech recycling program as well as local disposal options can be found at http://www.newertech.com/recycle.

NewerTech manufactures the NuPower battery line - which include highest available capacity replacement batteries for all Apple iBook and PowerBook computers produced since 1998. NuPower MaxCapacity Lithium-ion batteries provide up to 62% more run-time capacity than original Apple factory-shipped notebook power units.

People in Saskatchewan will soon be able to recycle their old TVs and computers — but they'll pay a levy to replace them, in the latest bid to curb the problem of e-waste.

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