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National Center for Electronics Recycling Thanks 2006 Partners, Receives Grant with Amandi Services to Further Recycling Initiatives in West Virginia

Davisville, W.Va. (PRWeb) November 30, 2006 -- The National Center for Electronics Recycling (NCER) today thanked its partners and sponsors for the success of the 2006 West Virginia electronics collection program. Through a series of nine collection events held throughout the state, the 2006 program prevented over 230,000 lbs of electronics from being dumped into state landfills.

Also today, the NCER and Amandi Services, both of Davisville, W. Va., announced that they were awarded $56,200 through the Rehabilitation Environmental Action Plan (REAP) of the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) during a Monday ceremony hosted by Governor Joe Manchin III. The NCER and Amandi were one of forty-two solid waste authorities, county commissions, municipalities, private businesses and nonprofit organizations to receive awards this year through the WVDEP's REAP Program. This grant program provides assistance to counties, municipalities and other third party operations that plan and implement recycling and education programs and recycling market efforts.

The grant received through the state's REAP Program will help the NCER and Amandi Services continue their electronics collection program throughout the state. The successful 2006 program was accomplished through a grant from the West Virginia High Technology Consortium (WVHTC) Foundation. Nine electronics recycling collection events were held at various urban and rural counties throughout West Virginia: Greenbrier, Kanawha, Monongalia, Marion, Marshall, Putnam, Upshur, Taylor, and Wood. The most successful event, held in July at the Grand Central Mall in Vienna (Wood County), collected over 49,000 lbs - a record in the state from residents and small businesses.

In addition to the NCER and Amandi, other partners that played a crucial role in the 2006 program were the Solid Waste Authorities in Greenbrier, Marion, Marshall, Putnam, Upshur, Taylor, and Wood counties; the state Solid Waste Management Board (SWMB) and WVDEP; SDR Technologies (a West Virginia plastics recycler); the Best Buy in Morgantown; the Home Depot in Hurricane; John Marshall High School; Grand Central Mall in Vienna; the WVHTC Foundation; and seven manufacturers who sponsored the events by paying for the events by paying for the recycling costs of their branded products collected: JVC, Lexmark, Panasonic, Philips, Sharp, Sony, and Toshiba. A final report on the results and lessons learned from the 2006 report is available at www.ncerwv.org.

"We are very excited to be one of the many worthy recipients under this year's REAP Statewide Recycling Program," said NCER Executive Director Jason Linnell. "The funding will enable to us to build on the success of the 2006 program and test new ideas and methods of electronics collection and public education."

"Amandi is pleased to be partnering with the NCER once again in 2007," noted Amandi Vice President Joe Nardone. "The funding will allow the safe demanufacturing of the end-of-life electronics received at the collection events. Our West Virginia facility near Parkersburg is continuing to expand and we look forward offering more opportunities for state residents to properly recycle their used electronics."

The NCER will continue to partner with the West Virginia SWMB, WVDEP, and county Solid Waste Authorities to arrange electronics collection events and programs. In addition to one-day events, the 2007 program will also select at least one location in the state as an ongoing collection program in order to compare results.

Amandi Services will operate electronics recycling events and handle "demanufacturing" activities at its Davisville facility. Amandi has over 50 years of experience in the areas of electronic waste environmental compliance, product stewardship initiatives for electronic devices, Cathode Ray Tube glass recycling, and commodity management.

The grant team will announce the first electronics collection events in early 2007 on the NCER and SWMB websites: www.electronicsrecycling.org/NCER/wvcollection and http://www.state.wv.us/swmb/ECycle%20Home.htm.


About NCER: The National Center for Electronics Recycling (NCER) is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization formed in 2005 and located in Davisville, West Virginia. The NCER is dedicated to the development and enhancement of a national infrastructure for the recycling of used electronics in the U.S. For more information on the NCER and their electronics recycling initiatives, visit http://www.ncerwv.org.

About Amandi: Envirocycle, Inc. and Nxtcycle, Inc. combined their experience, integrity and dedication to full service electronic recycling into one nationwide powerhouse. With 12 operations, more than 300 employees, and over 500,000 square feet of processing and warehouse space, Amandi provides complete recycling services to businesses, consumers, and municipalities from coast to coast. For more information, see http://www.amandiservices.com/

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