Green Days

Green Days - Bring your personal e-waste for disposal or recycle

What's happening:
On Wednesday June 3, 2009 between 7am and 12pm, Ford and TEKsystems volunteers will be collecting e-waste for safe disposal or recycling. TEKsystems has a zero land fill policy, and will eradicate data on all hard drives in compliance with Department of Defense standards.



e-Waste that will be accepted includes:
PCs, Laptops, External Drives, Monitors, Keyboards, Mice, Phones, Printers, Printer Cartridges, Cables, VCRs, Faxes, Stereo Components, Cell Phones, DVD Players



How this affects you:

Bring your personal e-waste to the south parking lot of FMCC (One American Road, Dearborn, MI). It is between WHQ and FMCC; click here for a map. Volunteers will collect your used computer equipment (you don't even have to get out of your car). Drag and drop the attached meeting notice into your calendar for an additional reminder of the event.



Volunteers are needed. This is not an HR sanctioned volunteer event, and participation should be approved by your manager. Up to twenty (20) volunteers are needed for 2.5 hr shifts. Please click here to volunteer.



Support:

If you have questions, please contact the Green Day committee at GreenIT@ford.com





Green facts*

§ More than 140 million phones enter the U.S. waste stream every year, where they have the potential to leak mercury, cadmium, arsenic, and more into water streams.

§ In the past 10 years more than 500 million personal computers became obsolete

§ Only 9.4% of end of life e-Waste products were recycled in 2007

§ Older computer monitors can contain 2-4 pounds of lead.

§ An estimated 70% of heavy metals in U.S. landfills come from e-waste.

§ 3.9 metric tons of gold and 2,100 metric tons of copper could be recovered if all of the 130 million cell phones retired yearly in the US were recycled.

§ Recycling 1 million cell phones a year would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the same amount as taking 1,368 cars off the road.