Privately owned electronic recycling companies throughout the country are experiencing extreme financial distress on a number of fronts.  A declining commodities market has caused a drop in the value of metal and plastics that are recovered from electronic goods.  As a result, organizations are holding on to their electronic equipment longer and it is suspected that in some cases this equipment is ending up in landfills.

Recyclers are concerned that there are businesses that are undercutting costs and risk losing the environmentally friendly image that many have worked so hard to achieve.  Several new state laws may have a limited impact, but some, such as the New Jersey law that bans electronic waste from landfills does not even go into effect until January, 2011.

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