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  2. Recycling in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Stanolind Recycling Plant was in operation as early 1947. [32] Another early recycling mill was Waste Techniques, built in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania in 1972. [citation needed] Waste Techniques was sold to Frank Keel in 1978, and resold to BFI in 1981. Woodbury, New Jersey, was the first city in the United States to mandate recycling. [33]

  3. Electronic waste in the United States - Wikipedia

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    PA Covered Device Recycling Act [72] Rhode Island: June 2008 Electronic Waste Prevention, Reuse, and Recycling Act [70] Texas: June 2007 House Bill 2714 [70] Virginia: March 2008 Computer Recovery and Recycling Act. [73] Washington: March 2006 SB 6428 [73] West Virginia: March 2008 SB 746 [73] Wisconsin: October 2009 SB 107 [74]

  4. Middletown, Rhode Island - Wikipedia

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    Middletown is a town in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 17,075 at the 2020 census . It lies to the south of Portsmouth and to the north of Newport on Aquidneck Island , hence the name "Middletown."

  5. List of Superfund sites in Rhode Island - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Superfund sites in Rhode Island designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]

  6. Electronic waste recycling - Wikipedia

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    Computer monitors are typically packed into low stacks on wooden pallets for recycling and then shrink-wrapped. [1]Electronic waste recycling, electronics recycling, or e-waste recycling is the disassembly and separation of components and raw materials of waste electronics; when referring to specific types of e-waste, the terms like computer recycling or mobile phone recycling may be used.

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  8. Mobile phone recycling - Wikipedia

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    California's Department of Toxic Substances Control reported that in 2020, 8.47 million phones were sold in California and 1.34 million phones were returned for recycling, which amounts to a 15.9% recycling rate. This rate was an increase from 2019, when the recycling rate was 8.6%. [21]

  9. USPS Post Office Box Lobby Recycling program - Wikipedia

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    USPS "Slim Jim" recycling bin for unwanted mail. The program uses 23-US-gallon (87 L)-capacity plastic bins, which USPS refers to as "Slim Jims". [8] The bins have lockable lids and have a narrow insertion slot to maintain customer privacy and limit the potential of discarded mail being stolen for the harvesting of personal information.