More CE Gear Being Recycled, But Also Being Trashed, CEA Survey Finds

Three in 10 U.S. adults have recycled a CE product in the past year, a CEA survey found. That's a 4 percent increase since two years ago, the last time CES canvassed consumers on their e-cycling habits, CEA said Thursday. This year’s survey also found that more than four in five adults rate recycling their old electronics as important or very important, CEA said. Other findings: (1) three in five said they know where they can recycle electronics, a slight decline from 2012; (2) virtually all those canvassed said they would be willing to travel "some distance" to recycle their unwanted electronics, and more than a third said they would travel more than 10 miles to do so; (3) the percentage of consumer recycling is up, but so is the percentage of those who discard. The survey found that 18 percent of consumers said they discarded electronic devices in the trash during the past year, a six-percentage point increase from 2012.