CHESAPEAKE, Va., May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly 200 area residents and businesses attended Cox Hampton Roads and Synergy Recycling's E-waste recycling event held, Saturday, April 25, 2009 at the Hampton Convention Center.

Approximately 65,000 pounds of materials were collected within a six-hour window of time.

"We were thrilled to sponsor this event to help preserve and protect the environment right here in Hampton Roads. It was truly a great sight to see with all of the cars and trucks loaded with items like computers, televisions, stereos, camcorders, cell phones, printers, scanners... and you name it! Our partners at Synergy indicated to us that if it has a plug, they would accept it!" says Gary McCollum, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cox Hampton Roads. "No dates are set just yet, but we will be sponsoring additional efforts in the future."

Synergy Recycling LLC is a privately held firm located in Madison, North
Carolina. A recent $15 million dollar expansion of new processing facility in
Madison North Carolina and into Hampton Roads and Roanoke, Virginia offers
statewide ISO certified electronics recycling. Synergy is ISO 14001:2004 (EMS)
Certified for environmental management and was recently certified ISO 18001
(OHSAS) for occupational health and safety. Synergy Recycling's services
include environmentally responsible recycling of obsolete and end of life
electronic equipment, asset recovery, and certified data destruction of
proprietary or otherwise sensitive media, logistics and transportation for the
materials handled.