Happy Tuesday,

Small Dog’s annual eWaste roundups in Montpelier, VT and Manchester, NH brought in a combined total of around 175 tons of waste in the past two weeks. We’ve been helping customers recycle their electronic waste since 2004, and in response to the pent up demand in Vermont, we held a free eWaste roundup at our South Burlington store in 2007.

Expecting perhaps five tons, we received 55 tons. In 2008 and 2009, our event brought in over 130 tons in a span of five hours. The 2010 events in South Burlington and Manchester brought in well over 100 tons from 1,800 carloads! It’s truly incredible to be a company that’s recycled more electronics by weight than we’ve sold, especially considering we used to move thousands of eMacs and G3 iMacs that weighed upwards of 50 pounds.

We encourage you to recycle with us throughout the year at our retail stores in Vermont and New Hampshire. I wish we could do it for free all year, but we also want to stay in business. eWaste can be recycled for 35 cents per pound—our cost—at any of our three retail locations. The next time you upgrade your computer please consider recycling responsibly. It’s the least we can do to save our planet from the dangerous substances found in all of the great gear we throw away.

If you’re close to our stores, keep an eye out for our second eWaste event of the year coming sometime this fall!

As always, thanks for reading, and keep in touch.

Matt
matt@smalldog.com