Some Pa. Goodwill stores will now recycle electronic waste for free
Goodwill Keystone Area will accept electronic items from keyboards and toasters to cables and MP3 players. Goodwill Keystone Area has partnered with Reworld, the waste management company formerly known as Covanta, to recycle electronic waste for free. The partnership allows for donations of old computers, televisions, and microwaves to Goodwill stores in the counties surrounding Philadelphia. The company will also recycle any electronics they cannot resell. Andrew Gackenbach, chief retail operations officer at Goodwill, said they had difficulty recycling TVs, stereos, microwaves, vacuum cleaners, and other home electronics that could not be sold.
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Residents of the counties surrounding Philadelphia who have old computers, televisions, and microwaves can now donate them to Goodwill to be sold or recycled.
Goodwill Keystone Area recently announced a partnership with Reworld, the waste management company formerly known as Covanta. Reworld will recycle whatever electronics Goodwill stores cannot resell.
Goodwill stores have always accepted old phones, computers, keyboards, TVs, microwaves and other electronics. However, Andrew Gackenbach, chief retail operations officer at Goodwill Keystone Area, said they had difficulty recycling TVs, stereos, microwaves, vacuum cleaners, and other home electronics that could not be sold.
“We actually had … a significant portion of a warehouse with pallets of electronics that we were trying to figure out what to do with because we didn’t want to throw them away, but we didn’t have any real good partner to recycle them.”
He said the staff would collect and try to recycle them whenever a company or organization had one-off collection drives to recycle old electronics.
“In many cases it would become a pretty big expense for us to figure out how to responsibly deal with it,” he said.
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