Good Point Recycling made the front of the local Addison County newspaper yesterday. I was shocked to immediately get congratulations from Mexicali Mexico, Rhode Island, etc. It's a small world.
It was kind of a coincidence that the local paper came in during a walk-through with the Angolan electronics buyer. Would they see this as evidence that we are "an exporter?" Actually, I think the paper did a very good job, for a non-trade journal, of distinguishing between the 23% we export for reuse and recycling and the 77% of computers and TVs ("e-waste") we process domestically.
Compared to the articles I would have been a part of ten years ago... I'm doing the same thing... exporting a small percentage of used electronics, paying people to test and de-manufacture the junk. But back then, the emphasis of any article was "look! look! I'm NOT exporting 77%! Look at us destroy!" Yesterday's article, in a way, gingerly put, was about a local inter-racial marriage.
It was kind of a coincidence that the local paper came in during a walk-through with the Angolan electronics buyer. Would they see this as evidence that we are "an exporter?" Actually, I think the paper did a very good job, for a non-trade journal, of distinguishing between the 23% we export for reuse and recycling and the 77% of computers and TVs ("e-waste") we process domestically.
Compared to the articles I would have been a part of ten years ago... I'm doing the same thing... exporting a small percentage of used electronics, paying people to test and de-manufacture the junk. But back then, the emphasis of any article was "look! look! I'm NOT exporting 77%! Look at us destroy!" Yesterday's article, in a way, gingerly put, was about a local inter-racial marriage.
