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The city of Mobile, Alabama, is partnering with recycling company Ransom Solutions, a Chickasaw, Alabama, recycling center, on an initiative to keep electronic waste out of landfills, Fox10 News reports.
“There’s a lot of toxic waste in electronics,” says Matt Armbruster, founder and executive director of Ransom Solutions. “There’s mercury, there’s lead, so we go in and we separate all those different things, and then we sell them, which goes back into the stream.”
Phones, computers and other electronic devices that would otherwise contaminate landfills can be dropped off at any of three Ransom Solutions recycling centers in Mobile.
“We say anything that plugs into a wall … toasters, a blender, computers, printers, anything that’s smaller,” Armbruster says.
The company suggests leaving small electronic devices at drop-off locations in Mobile, while larger items such as old televisions should be taken directly to the company’s recycling facility in Chickasaw.
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