Reuse and Recycling through 2005
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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
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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.