Staples Offers Rewards Members $10 Off for Recycling Electronics In-Store
Staples is marking Earth Day Monday with a weeklong promotion that debuts Sunday offering Rewards members $10 off a $30 or more purchase when they bring discarded electronics into the store for recycling. Staples said it will accept PCs and…
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printers, tablets and mobile devices, plus other electronics, including DVD and Blu-ray players and stereo receivers, but not TVs and other large electronics. It will enforce a limit of seven recycled items per customer per day, it said. Staples is an e-Stewards Enterprise, an e-waste program started and sanctioned by the Basel Action Network on responsible recycling, said the retailer. ERI Direct, a certified e-Stewards recycler, “is our primary recycling partner for electronics and therefore must be audited against stringent standards and disclose their downstream processing partners to ensure that they are using responsible e-waste recycling practices and not exporting or otherwise improperly handling electronic materials,” it said. E-waste that Staples collects from customers will be “backhauled” to warehouses and shipped to ERI Direct for processing, it said.