Since the inception of the E-Cycle Washington program statewide, close to 20 million pounds of electronics are estimated to have been diverted from the landfills. According to date from the state Ecology Department, close to 600,000 pounds of electronics have been diverted in Kitsap County alone as of May (about 4 percent of the statewide total).

E-Cycle Washington was the result of a state law passed in 2006 that requires electronics manufacturers to pay for the recycling of laptops, televisions, computer monitors and towers. The law requires the manufacturers to take those electronics apart and reuse parts. So far, the majority of the electronics collected, nearly 63 percent, is televisions. In Kitsap County, nine sites are listed as participating in the E-Cycle drop-off program, including thrift stores and refuse facilities.

“It has had some great results. The public has responded very favorably,” said Holly James, business development consultant for All Shred, a document-destruction service owned by the nonprofit Peninsula Services.

For more information, visit www.ecyclewashington.org.