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 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.