Michigan bishop joins in campaign targeting discarded electronics

Published: 2006-04-19

MARQUETTE, Mich. (CNS) -- Bishop Alexander K. Sample of Marquette joined with other faith leaders, university students, environmentalists and an American Indian tribe in encouraging residents of the state's Upper Peninsula to recycle their old or broken electronic devices for Earth Day 2006. The second annual Earth Keeper Clean Sweep April 22 was to feature 28 collection sites, most in church parking lots, where communications and entertainment electronics -- including computers, cell phones and traditional phones, fax machines, televisions and CD players -- could be dropped off for recycling. Organizers hoped to collect 100 tons of electronic waste, or "e-waste," in about three hours. "While the wonders of technology available to us are a great blessing, we must not lose sight of the fact that it carries with it the serious responsibility to be good stewards of God's creation," said Bishop Sample, whose diocese includes 97 parishes and missions and has a Catholic population of 67,400.

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