Reuse and Recycling through 2005

This page contains materials that shows how much electronic scrap (i.e. e-scrap) we've recycled throughout the years, as well as approximately how many systems, monitors, and printers we've reused and recycled in sum.

E-Scrap Recovery Rates

Tons of material recycled by year, broken down by type.

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The raw data from the chart (numbers are in tons):

Year	Mixed	Monitors	Steel	Copper- Bearing	Plastic	Gold- Bearing	Other Non-Ferrous	Total Tonnage
2000	2.22	0	0	0	0	0	0	2.22
2001	59.92	11.13	0	0	0	2.74	0	73.79
2002	20.68	32.78	24.45	6.86	2.14	2.78	0	89.69
2003	40.31	22.50	40.33	19.44	8.92	6.66	0.68	138.84
2004	41.70	38.02	74.65	46.14	11.70	11.56	2.20	225.97
2005	46.20	126.90	140.30	71.70	16.60	13.80	2.20	417.70

Some clarifications about what comprises the items in some of the above categories:

Mixed

Oso needs to define what this means.

Copper-Bearing Material

an item from which we can salvage some copper, generally from a small circuit board buried in its workings. Mice, stereos, sometimes printers, telephones, and miscellaneous adapters go in this category.

Gold-Bearing Material

processors, memory, and circuit boards are included in this category.

Some fun, additional stats for you:

• Over the life of the organization through 2005, Free Geek recycled, or "recovered", 948.21 tons of e-scrap.
• In the year 2005, Free Geek recycled about the same amount of steel as it had recycled during all of the previous 4 years combined.
• At the end of 2005, Free Geek was recycling over 35 tons per month through its facility.