Free postage coming for recycling?

According to a post last week at Resource Shelf, the USPS has started a pilot program with a private company to provide free shipping for recycling small electronics.

Postage is paid for by Clover Technologies Group, a nationally recognized company that recycles, remanufactures and remarkets inkjet cartridges, laser cartridges and small electronics. If the electronic item or cartridges cannot be refurbished and resold, its component parts are reused to refurbish other items, or the parts are broken down further and the materials are recycled.

Although currently only available in 10 major cities (all Outside, of course), the USPS anticipates that the program could go national in the fall. The devil is in the details, as they say, but what a great idea!