Teddy Kider from The Frederick News-Post, Maryland views in the article that deep inside a dimly lit warehouse filled with towers of oversized cardboard boxes and piles of electronic equipment, three workers picked at personal computers. They stripped the systems of metal and wire, separating elements and placing them in appropriate containers.
"I feel like I'm doing a service for the environment," said Juanita Smith, one of the workers and a lifelong resident of Hagerstown, Maryland. "You'll be amazed what we find," said Lisa S. Collins, a Frederick resident. "We'll open a CD-ROM drive, and out pops something with a missile system on it." Collins is the Vice President of business development for Freedom Electronics Recycling Inc., a Hagerstown company that specialises in recycling Car Electronic Equipment -- anything from personal computers and printers to video cameras and cell phones. Collins said the biggest selling point in the electronic recycling industry is the recyclers' ability to destroy data in computer systems that are ready to be discarded. She further said that a standard computer monitor contains an average of 4 to 6 pounds of lead and electronic waste often ends up in toxic forms in foreign nations. Freedom owner Richard Schulman and Collins created a policy of keeping the electronic waste they recycle in the United States. They said other electronic recycling companies export materials in dangerous and toxic forms.
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