Best Buy to recycle electronics for free

If you live near one of 117 Best Buy stores and are desperately in need of unloading your rusty, broken-down gadgets, you're in luck.
Beginning Sunday, Best Buy began allowing customers to bring two items per household per day into some stores in Baltimore, San Francisco, and Minnesota for free. But if you're looking to unload that mammoth front-projection TV--not so fast, there are some restrictions.

Unclutter your life--for free--courtesy of Best Buy.
(Credit: Erica Ogg/CNET Networks)Best Buy says they will take computers, phones, cameras, PC peripherals, and more, but only TVs and monitors smaller than 32 inches diagonal. TVs larger than that, as well as air conditioners, microwaves, and large household appliances, aren't eligible.
Cost is often an issue for recycling programs. Almost all states have electronic waste recycling laws, and most of them put the cost burden on the manufacturer or retailer that actually does the recycling. That's why though other electronics retailers have programs to take back undesired electronics and PCs, there's often a fee for their trouble.
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I think they are using it as an excuse to get more business. A good business will try anything to get you in the store. I think they need to give the person who payed enough attention to the news from post office a raise. Bravo.
I am not saying shame on bes buy. I know that big box stores (large chains of stores) all ready do the right thing for the environment (In WA State they force all companies to recycle. Which is the way it should be) and for the safety of their staff (chemical / HASMAT). The large company I work for recycles card board and gives the proceeds to the employee in need or for employee events.
My only wish is that these recycled items when in working condition should be given to the less fortunate in third world countries (where appropriate, they have to access to the services that some of the items need to work, but not everything is like that.) While we buy and toss American's may not see a use for a 2 year old iPod someone in Africa or some other less fortunately and wasteful countries could. But, instead most of this stuff will end up in landfills in Cambodia or Tim-buck-two. Shame.
Robert