Giving Tech a Sustainable Send-Off

Loft office guru Urban Innovations is holding its fourth annual Earth Week electronics recycling drive in partnership with Waste Management. (So get that Betamax out of the attic. Stop it, you're not gonna use it anymore.) VP of commercial property management Alfrieda Green tells us that tenants can turn in old phones, laptops, monitors, and other electronic waste at each of the firm’s buildings and results will be tallied at the end of the week.

In the e-waste drive’s first year, Urban Innovations recycled nearly 8,000 pounds of electronic waste (only 12% of national e-waste is disposed of properly), Alfrieda tells us. Many tenants have started saving their old gadgets for the drive, and it’s amazing what people hold onto in their storage rooms, she says. The benefits are huge: recycling one million laptops saves the energy equivalent to the electricity used by 3,657 US homes in a year, according to the EPA.

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