Sims Recycling Solutions Collects over 1 Million Pounds of E-Waste for Recycling in Celebration of Earth Day 2011

Sims Recycling Solutions is proud to announce that in celebration of Earth Day 2011 over 1 Million Pounds of e-waste was collected for recycling. End Quote

Chicago, IL (1888PressRelease) June 03, 2011 - Sims Recycling Solutions, the world's largest electronics recycler, today announced that in celebration of Earth Day, the company collected over 1 million pounds of electronic waste for recycling. Collected items ranged from consumer products to business and industry materials collected at an event or at one of the Company's Sims Recycling Solutions facilities across the United States.

Steve Skurnac, President, Sims Recycling Solutions, Americas said, "Sims Recycling Solutions placed a tremendous amount of effort into acknowledging Earth Day this year at our facilities. We held business and consumer events, participated in festivals and other local community events celebrating this important day. The hard work of our employees was rewarded and we collected a staggering amount of electronic waste while helping to make the Earth just a little healthier."

The EPA states that 68% of consumers stockpile used or unwanted computer equipment in their homes. Sims Recycling Solutions is proud to be able to service the communities in which we locate and to help tackle this growing issue of stockpiled electronic waste.

Sims Recycling Solutions

Sims Recycling Solutions (www.us.simsrecycling.com) is the world's largest electrical and electronics recovery and recycling company with 42 sites across the globe.

Sims Recycling Solutions recycles all types of electronic equipment and enables businesses to meet both their social and legal obligations in the treatment of surplus electronics. The company's asset management and recovery service enables businesses and public sector organizations to sustain the value of IT and electronic equipment, in a legally compliant, data secure, fully traceable and environmentally sustainable manner.

In North America, Sims Recycling Solutions operates 13 sites in Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, Ontario, South Carolina and Tennessee.

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