Best Buy testing free e-waste recycling program

June 2, 2008 By MICHAEL LIEDTKE , AP Business Writer

(AP) -- Under pressure to help dispose some of the electronic waste it helped create, Best Buy Co. is testing a free program that will offer consumers a convenient way to ensure millions of obsolescent TVs, old computers and other unwanted gadgets don't poison the nation's dumps.



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