Best Buy announced recently that it has taken in 1 billion pounds of end-of-life electronics within the past six years. It has also stated that it will take in 2 billion pounds of e-scrap in the next six years. It will accomplish this mainly through its free recycling services at its 1,400 stores in the United States. As an OEM, Best Buy is required to collect and recycle electronics in about half the states in the U.S. and a good chunk of what the retailer collects goes toward those obligations. “Everything that’s in the covered electronics category we count,” said Scott Weislow, senior director of environmental services at Best Buy, adding that the company “fulfills our obligations hands down, no question.” By weight, CRT devices continue to dominate the Best Buy e-scrap collection stream. While CRT tonnages have not begun to decrease, Weislow says he thinks the plateau is on the horizon. “I think we will see a shift,” Weislow said. “I think we’re going to end up seeing more phones and tablets … and I think we’ll see more desktops as people go more and more to tablets and laptops and notebooks. And I think we’ll see TVs diminish over time. It’s not going to happen overnight — I think we’re still a few years out before we start seeing much of a decline — but it’s coming for sure.”