Robin Ingenthron established the Good Point Recycling center and its sister company American Retroworks in Middlebury Vermont. They collect TV sets, computers, photocopy machines, radios and any digital discards from facilities around the state and parts of New England. Some electronics are salvageable and can be refurbished for reuse. Others are taken apart and their insides are sorted by the types of materials they are made of. These recyclable components then get shipped to reprocessors in the United States or abroad to countries such as Mexico, Malaysia and other developing countries that have low supply of information-age tools.
In Mexico, Good Point partners with a cooperative made up of middle-age women who call themselves Las Chicas Bravas who repair and recycle machines. Ingenthron says electronic recycling is environmentally beneficial for it reduces mining-a process that emits 45% of all toxins by the US. Good Point handled 4.5 million pounds of used electronics in 2008, mostly comprised of analog TV's discarded due to the switch to digital transmissions.
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