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Yorba Linda1 StarAN COITION OF THEREGISTERServing Yorba I inda since 1917Also serving PlacentiaFRIDAY. AUG. 1,2014 -------------OCREGISTER.COM/VORBALINDAYorba Linda man uses recycling business to give both people and electronics another shot.SECOND CHANCESBY DANIEL LANOHORNESTAFF WRITERYorba Linda’s Dino De Marco didn’t know how to use a computer when started nonprofit Extreme Dream in 1993 to help prevent drug abuse and gang involvement among local children.The organization, among other things, recycled old computers for the Homeless Intervention Shelter, the Gomez Center and El Dorado High School. For seven years, De Marco said, he didn’t collect a paycheck from Extreme Dream.The nonprofit group took off, so much so that he got his paychecks.“It just exploded,” he said.But then the recession hit, and the nonprofit crashed.De Marco tried again, this time with a business that he calls Extreme Recycling. If equipment has a circuit board, a battery or a power cord, Extreme Recycling can generally recycle, repurpose or resell it.Last year, the company processed 196,823 pounds of electronics - just over 98 tons - at its Placentia headquarters, De Marco said.He estimates that the company is on track to double that amount this year if business continues as usual.Still, De Marco, through Extreme Recycling, do-SEE RECYCLE* PAGE 2MATT MASIN, STAFFPHOTOGRAPHERExtreme Recycling recycles tons of electronics every month.SHUTTERSTOCK.COM
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