Every day, discarded electronics products, also known as e-waste, end up
in landfills or incinerators, contaminating the land, water and air with
heavy metals like lead, cadmium and mercury. According to the EPA,
Americans generate more e-waste than any other culture in the world,
sending millions of tons of toxic electronic components to landfills
each year, partly because consumers don’t know what else to do with
their obsolete computers, monitors, cell phones or VCRs.

As part of its mission to make it easier for St. Louisans to be part of
the solution and live more sustainably, Home Eco offers a variety of
recycling programs at the store, including an electronics recycling
drive on the first Saturday of every month from 10 until noon, in
conjunction with St. Louis Teachers Recycling Center,
http://stlouisteachersrecycle.homestead.com

Volunteers from St. Louis Teachers Recycling Center collect monitors,
keyboards, mice, CPUs and assorted other electronics and turn them in to
D-Cal Services (http://www.dcalservices.com/faqs.asp) for recycling.
D-Cal is a computer recycling center and is registered with both the EPA
and the state of Missouri Department of Natural Resources and meets all
of their respective requirements.

A donation of $10 is requested for each small consumer electronic or
computer component dropped off, and $20 for computer monitors. At this
time, we are unable to accept televisions.