Geek Squad Joins Forces with Ellen DeGeneres on Earth Day

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As part of her Earth Day celebration, Ellen DeGeneres encouraged all her fans to participate in the Energy Star “Flip Your Fridge” campaign in partnership with Best Buy, Geek Squad, LG and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The campaign seeks to encourage consumers to responsibly recycle their aging fridges and upgrade to new, energy-efficient models.

To help her audience members flip their fridges, Ellen gave each of them two $500 BBY gift cards they could use to buy newer, more energy-efficient machines. Geek Squad will help support the effort by hauling away old appliances and disposing of them in an environmentally responsible manner.

Flip Your Fridge is part of the EPA’s effort to slow climate change by getting Americans to replace their old, inefficient appliances with new ENERGY STAR certified ones. Since most of the environmental impact caused by refrigerators comes from their energy use, switching out an old machine for a new one will go a long way toward lowering a household’s environmental footprint. And by properly recycling their old refrigerators, homeowners further protect the environment by keeping the refrigerant from polluting the air and the preventing the foam insulation from releasing toxic gases and polluting our landfills with hazardous chemicals.

See the segment of the show in which Ellen surprises a lucky audience member with an entire kitchen make-over.

To find out more about the USEPA’s “Flip Your Fridge” initiative, visit the USEPA’s ENERGY STAR website.

For more information on our recycling services, visit Best Buy’sproduct recycling page.

BTW – Minnesota Public Radio recently did a segment on electronics recycling that discussed Best Buy’s role in effectively keeping harmful materials out of the landfills. Listen to the story on MPR’s website