Recycling Electronics: If donation for reuse or repair is not a viable option, households and businesses can send their used electronics for recycling. Recycling electronics avoids pollution and the need to extract valuable and limited virgin resources. It also reduces the energy used in new product manufacturing. A growing number of municipalities are offering computer and electronics collections as part of household hazardous waste collections or special events. In addition, public and private organizations have emerged that accept computers and other electronics for recycling. Depending on where you live and the amount of equipment you have, the best recycling option may be a county recycling drop-off center, TV repair shop, charitable organization, electronics recycling company, or even your local electronics retailer, winch may collect used products and send them to a recycler. Some electronics manufacturers are accepting household electronics for recycling. In some cases, these services are provided free-of-charge. Asset management and recovery programs have been available to major corporations and large purchasers of electronic equipment for quite some time. Now, electronics manufacturers are beginning to offer similar services for households and small businesses.