In addition to offering ecoEnvelopes, The U.S. Postal Service has teamed up with electronics recycling company Clover Technologies Group to make it easier to recycle used ink and laser cartridges.The Mail Back pilot program is pretty simple: just grab a prepaid envelope from your local Postal Service location (well, if it's one of the 1,500 where the envelopes are offered), pop in your used inkjet cartridge, PDA, Blackberry, iPod, mp3 player, or digi camera, and send.
The old electronics are then sent to Clover, where they are either refurbished and resold, or taken apart and recycled. Apparently, the USPS decided to team with Clover because of the company's "zero waste to landfill" policy. Translation: they do everything in their power to keep old electronics out of the landfills.
The program is just a pilot right now, so I apologize in advance to people who don't happen to live in a big city. But if you do live in D.C., San Diego, L.A., Chicago, or a handful of other metropolises, participate so the program becomes fully implemented in this fall.
[via] GoingGreenMatters
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