A slide in the number of old television sets, computers and monitors turned in for recycling has prompted Sunrise Enterprises to stop accepting electronic waste, beginning Friday. The Green-based nonprofit collected 426 tons of e-waste over the past three years, but has found making a profit on the items increasingly difficult, Sunrise Chief Operations Officer Don Wright said. “It was an easy business decision,” Wright said. In January 2010, Oregon banned computers, monitors and television sets from landfills. The state began charging manufacturers an annual fee, based on their market share, to pay for a recycling program. Cathode-ray tubes in …
Sunrise Enterprises drops e-waste recycling
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