I'm happy to say for the most part my family is OK when it comes to e-Waste. Aside from my Mom losing/accidentally throwing away cell phones, we keep old ones for emergency back up or return them to an MTS outlet to be recycled. We aren't big on upgrading electronics (we only recently put some money together for a large flat screen TV) but old ones are still put to good use. There is, however, an odd balance between old and upgrades. Old TVs may use more heat and power, whereby new ones are made to be more energy efficient. If you have perfectly good televisions or electronics and are still upgrading, why waste the energy from assembling a new one when the old is still good? Actually, the more I think about it, the worse off we actually are. We do have TVs sitting around waiting to be used. Though unplugged, they could potentially become a nuisance and get thrown away with the garbage. In the last 10 years we have only actually thrown away one stereo system.
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