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- Intercon Solutions featured on Save my Planet, part of the Live Well National HD Network
- ABC Live Green with Hosea Sanders “Truly Green Recycling – Intercon Solutions”
- MSPAlliance Launches E-Recycling Program for Global Membership
- ABC Action News – Intercon Processes for green awareness and e-waste recycling drive
- Investors Business Daily – Leaders & Success – Intercon Solutions
- Chicago Tonight /WTTW Channel 11 - Intercon Solutions processing for the manufacturing industry
- Deborah’s Place 2010
- Recycling Today.com – Intercon Solutions Receives OHSAS 18001 Certification
- TBO.com – Recycling electronics today
- Intercon Solutions goes to the forefront of Safety
- WGN – DTV Transition Special - Recycling
- Tossing out your old TV, Properly
- Intercon takes giant steps to save the environment
- Intercon Representative Ossie Ally Helps Innisbrook Go Green on Fox 13
- The Recycling Newspaper – American Recycler features Intercon Solutions
- International Herald Tribune / Global Edition of the New York Times / Featured Top Processor - Intercon Solutions
- The Green Way to Throw out E-Waste, NBC National Evening News with Brian Williams
- Chicago Tribune - Old ways of destroying electronic waste are being thrown out
- TV Recycling that is good for environment. ABC 7 - Chicago
- Top Processor Intercon Solutions recycles for Wisconsin
- Computer Clean Up – E-cycling Near You
- SouthTown Star - Intercon handles E-Waste Spring Clean Up Event
- Star Tribune - Minnesota / Intercon is a solution
- Shape Magazine - Green is the new pretty
- Label it: The Earth Day Challenge – Whitley County
- Schererville Community News – What do I do with my old electronics?
- Chicago SunTimes.com - Intercon Solutions nominated for Innovation Award
- Discovery Channel – Things we love to hate
- Chicago Sun Times August 2007
- Intercon Solutions Plans Program to Raise Environmental Awareness
- The News Tribune.com - Every speck of your trash is this company's treasure
- American Recycler - A Closer Look
- Recycling
Today - Disassembly Line
- The Today Show with Lester Holt
- Interactive Media - It's Not Easy Being Green
- May 11th, 2007 – WYCC-TV
- The Norman Transcript.com - Chicago Heights recycler reverses manufacturing
- A Handbook for Earth Friendly Living by Crissy Trask - It's Easy Being Green
- Columbia Tribune.com - Electronics recycler stays ahead of U.S. curve
- Chicago Business.com - On the Other End
of the Line
- Waste News.com - Intercon
Solutions names Travis Griggs wireless recycling chief
- Recycling Today´s Plastics
Recycling Conference - Electronic Recovery
- Electronic waste piling up in
Illinois, around the world
- Office and Commercial Real Estate Magazine - Recycling Electronics
- The Business Connection
- A Message from the President
- E-Prairie.com
- We Recycle Aluminum Cans, Plastic; Why Not Cell
Phones, Computers?
- Intercon Solutions to Update Facility
- Firm turns recycling practices up a notch
- Fermilab "Best in Class"
for Program to Reduce E-waste
- Public Works Magazine - The cost of e-waste
- DailySouthTown.com
- Electronics recycling
- TechOnLine.com
- Recycling e-waste
- Crain's Chicago Business
- Stamp of approval
- Chicago Sun-Times
- P.C. PC disposal
- Biz
Tech Magazine - Forgotten, But Not Gone
- First Business
- Profit from Old PC's
- Recycling
Today - Intercon Solutions adds plant
- The Star
- Electronic recycler expands with move to Chicago
Heights
- Chicago Sun-Times
- De-Lightful Move
- Solid Waste & Recycling
- Intercon Solutions moves US plant
- Waste News.com - Illinois
e-waste recycler moves to new facility, expands capacity
- RecyclingToday.com
- Electronics Recycler Opens New Facility
- Information
Security & Product Destruction News - Electronics
Recovery
- ICCM Weekly
- Environmental CRM: Toward a Corporate "Recycling
Mindset" for Retired Assets
- UPI Technology
News - Old mobile phones a hazard
- Red Streak - Old PCs
not just high-tech landfill fodder
- Norton E-Zine - Are
Recycled PCs Harming the Earth?
- IAER
Electronics Recycling Newsletter
- Tin Technology
- Making a business out of e-waste
- Fermilab
- Recycle Electronic Waste
- RecyclingToday.com
- Intercon Solutions Launches Online Electronics Recycling
Resource
- CBS2chicago.com
- High Tech Trash
- Waste News - E-recycling
Industry Continues Evolution
- Crain's Chicago
Business - Intercon Solutions Recycling Division
- Business Xpansion
Journal - Recycling Old Computers?
- The Star Newspaper
- Donate or recycle those old computers
- Computer Dealer
News - Canada's e-waste problem needs a cleanup
- TechTarget.com
News - Where old servers go to die
- Brian Brundage, CEO
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Tin Technology, 31 Aug 2004
Making a business out of e-waste
by SOLDERTEC
An recycling business in the US is seeing significant successes in handling and disposing of electronic waste products in an efficient and environmentally friendly way.
Chicago based Intercon currently recycles between 200,000 to 400,000 pounds of e-waste each week, including computers, television sets and telecoms equipment.
Items are taken in by the company and then stripped down to component parts, and these components are then to private smelting operations for recycling. In some cases, Intercon pays to dispose of potentially hazardous materials, such as lead, chromium, cadmium, mercury and flame retardants found in plastics.
The lead solder commonly found in many electronic goods is reused in automotive production.
Customers are charged a fee to have their waste items recycled and Intercon also receives a small fee from smelters.
"People are surprised when they hear that companies pay to have their computers recycled," chief executive Brian Brundage told the Chicago Sun-Times. "But most consumer electronics actually have a negative value.
"The costs involved with processing are not offset by the value of the raw material constituents."
Intercon has been recycling e-waste since 1987, but has seen a significant increase in activity as electronic waste becomes more common.
It has recently been estimated that consumer electronics accounts for 70 per cent of heavy metals, including 40 per cent of the lead in landfills, and the practice of shipping such waste to Asia has raised further concerns.
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