Green Up USA Inc. is a non-profit, electronics recycling organization reaching out to organizations and communities to heighten environmental awareness through recycling and disosal fundraising events to support charities.  

Green Up USA Inc. offers a solution to individuals and businesses to dispose of their electronics waste in a safe, environmentally-friendly manner. Green Up USA Inc. is sponsored by Advanced Headache Intervention Inc., a headache treatment company offering a non-drug solution for migraines.

• Ongoing efforts to educate and promote public awareness of the need for programs that directly address the growing and critical issues of E-Waste.

• Creation of sound management guidelines for the disposal & recycling process with an effective system of checks and balances.

• Attention to environmental details as we become aware of all of the issues and in addition, a program of D&R (Disposal & Re-Cycling)) follow-through.

• The ongoing promotion and creation of training and educational programs in D&R Technologies, D&R Management and D&R Corporate Compliance

• Returning as many of these re-cycled discards as possible, back into service on an as needs based, charitable programs.

• Green Up USA will utilize its non-profit forum to spread the message through our community about the critical issues involved with current policies of “Dumping E-Waster into our landfills”.

• Green UP USA, through a series of charity based collection and re-cycling events gathers used and discarded consumer electronics and evaluates them for either destruction or recycling. This program helps our environment from a serous safety issue, a clean up-perspective and our affiliated charity partners with cash revenues.

• Finally, Green UP USA will provide, on an ongoing bases, research and information gathering on effective disposal technologies, as well as Disposal Companies that meet our standards as well as those of the EPA and other standards agencies.

Make a difference TODAY through Green Up USA by:

• Making a charitable contribution to Green Up USA
• Recycling your old electronics through a Green Up USA event
• Working with your state to pass important recycling legislation
• Sponsoring recycling events to benefit the charity of your choice
• Coordinating with your HOA to promote recycling
• Spreading the word that Green Up USA is THE electronics recycling company of choice
  

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Some History on E-Waste

In the past decade technological advances in electronic data management and communications have spurred economic growth and improved people’s lives in countless ways. However, our growing dependence on electronic products, both at home and in the workplace, has given rise to a new environmental challenge: electronics waste. A recent study by The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows electronics already make up approximately one percent of the municipal solid waste stream. That number is expected grow dramatically over the next decade. 

Most of the environmental concerns with computers lie with the monitor, specifically its cathode ray tube (CRT). Each color monitor contains on average, four to five pounds of lead considered hazardous waste when discarded, according to EPA standards. Computers also contain other hazardous materials including mercury, cadmium (a known carcinogen), and hexavalent chromium (shown to cause high blood pressure, iron-poor blood, liver disease, and nerve and brain damage in animals). Most organizations have been collecting obsolete computers for years and it is estimated that more than 45 million computers were obsolete in 2005.