Verizon Beats Electronic Waste Collection Goal, Sets Another

Verizon said as it achieved a goal set in 2010 to collect by the end of 2015 2 million pounds of electronic waste in communities it serves. The 2 million pounds collected for recycling over the past five years is equivalent to the weight of 500 average cars, or roughly 50,000 cathode ray tube computer screens, it said Thursday. The company has set another five-year goal to collect 2 million more pounds of electronic waste by 2020. Verizon adheres to a zero-landfill objective for e-waste with all materials it collects reused or recycled so they don't end up in a landfill, the company said. Its recycling rallies also benefit Verizon's HopeLine program, which donates working mobile phones from recycling programs to domestic violence prevention and support organizations. More than 9 million wireless phones have been collected through the program since 2001, it said.