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LG’s Takeback Program
How to get FREE recycling from LG
LG has partnered with Waste Management’s Recycle America program to offer free takeback of their old products, including the Zenith and GoldStar brands, which LG owns.
How to get your stuff back to LG
Consumers must drop off their items at a designated LG takeback site, listed here. This list is the same as the Sony takeback sites, as Sony also uses Waste Management. LG’s goal is to have at least one drop off site in every state by the end of 2008.
What does LG take back?
LG will take back televisions, monitors, audio equipment, video cassette players and recorders, DVD players and recorders, combination TV/VCR and TV/DVD units, set top boxes and accessories associated with those products. Consumers may drop off up to 5 LG-branded items at a time. There is no fee to consumers for the covered LG-brand products; other brands will be accepted, but a fee may be charged by Waste Management for non-LG brands.
Cell phones, PDA, and GPS devices are covered by a separate, free mail-back program. Use that website to download a prepaid postal mailing label to send these items back for recycling. (They don’t have to be LG brands – they will accept any brand.) Or these can also be dropped off at the Waste Management sites listed above.
Who can use LG’s takeback services?
Consumers.
What about business customers?
Businesses can use the service, but they will need to pay a fee.
Read the small print (Details you need to know)
Waste management is adding new sites regularly, so if there are none located near you, check back soon.
Link for more details
Click here or call LG’s customer service center at 1-866-372-2928
Press Coverage
A Program to Certify Electronic Waste Recycling Rivals an Industry-U.S. Plan
New York Times04-15-10 -- In addition to outlining safe domestic handling and disposal practices for old televisions, computers and other electronic devices, the system would effectively bar participating recyclers from exporting toxic, nonfunctional electronic waste to developing nations. The program will compete directly with a less stringent standard recently developed by industry and the federal government that companies and recyclers say makes more economic sense.
Electronics Recycling - Who’s Responsible?
Recycling Today12-29-09 -- As the lawsuit challenging New York City’s electronics take-back law prepares for opening arguments in mid-January, industry associations and electronics recycling advocates wonder what effect the court’s ruling will have on the future of producer responsibility.
A Green Way to Dump Low-Tech Electronics
The New York Times06-30-09 -- The Environmental Protection Agency estimates 99.1 million televisions sit unused in closets and basements across the country. Consumer response to recycling has been enormous in states where the laws have taken effect.
