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Old computer monitors pile up at "Millenium Recycling".

By Brian Allen

A follow up now on a story we first brought you July 7th about a Sioux Falls program trying to keep old computers and TV's out of the city landfill.

We did some checking today and found a lot of you were paying attention to that story.

The line of cars is long and the piles of stuff those people are dropping off is growing deeper.

"I don't know how to respond to that!" Jake Anderson manages Millennium Recycling and is pleasantly overwhelmed by the crowd: he's waging what you could call a crusade to get everyone to bring their old, worn out electronics to him for recycling, instead of just dropping them off at the dump. "They know it's being destroyed, disposed of and recycled the proper way. It's not being landfilled."

"They just keep piling up in your garage." Bob King is relieved this program is here and you might be too after you see these numbers.

For 2008, it's expected Americans will throw away:

130 million cell phones: 50 million computers and 72 million televisions.

It's TV's that concern Jake Anderson: with so many people ditching their old analog ones for new digital sets, he feared a tidal wave of tech trash would come crashing down, which is why he's so thankful to see all these people show up with recycling on their minds. "The participation rates for these events just continue to go up and up."

And Jake Anderson tells us nearly part of an old cell phone, computer or television can be recycled and made into something useful again.

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Monday, Aug 18 at 11:02 AM lol wrote ...

should put Lar in the recycling bin, maybe, just maybe we can turn him into something useful.

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