Helping Texans recycle computers and electronics RESPONSIBLY
ReTek’s GOAL is to help make recycling computers and electronics as easy as possible for Central Texans and divert as much weight as we can from ending up in landfills.
Why is recycling responsibly so difficult??
60% Gen Z and millennials don’t know the definition of E-waste and admit to throwing away cellphones, charging cables, earbuds, and headphones into the trash.
We are constantly connected:
Since 2014, global e-waste generated worldwide is on pace to double to nearly 70 million tons by 2030.
70% to 80% of global e-waste is shipped to landfill sites in developing nations, where it is sorted and sold or burned to extract materials.
Planned obsolescence: planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life or a purposely frail design, so that it becomes obsolete after a certain pre-determined period of time upon which it decrementally functions or suddenly ceases to function, or might be perceived as unfashionable.
Enacting RIGHT TO REPAIR laws is dependent upon local state legislatures and just started to gain local momentum/support in 2022
BREAKDOWN OF A DELL PC
Planned Obsolescence - Do your part to avoid planned obsolescence by using the 6 R’s
REFUSE TO BUY, REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE, REDEEM, REBUY
Be amongst the 35% of consumers check the sustainability of personal electronics before they buy
Digital Fair Repair Act was passed by the New York senate in June of 2022