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Electronics recycling event Saturday at landfill: Devices that will be accepted include TVs, computers, cell phones, typewriters, telephones, VCRs
Nov 13, 2009 (The Daily Southerner - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --
For a second year in a row, Edgecombe County will help host an electronics recycling event out at the county landfill on Saturday.
From 8 a.m. to noon, the landfill will be accepting various electronic equipment for recycling that people no longer want to use. The event, at 2861 Colonial Road, is being co-sponsored by Keep America Beautiful of Nash & Edgecombe Counties. New Raleigh company Wesbell Technologies will be picking up the electronic items free-of-charge.
Cornelia McGee-Anthony, the coordinator for Keep America Beautiful of Nash & Edgecombe Counties, said the event Saturday coincides with America Recycles Day on Sunday. The non-profit organization chose to help sponsor the county's event since America Recycles Day fell on a Sunday this year, McGee-Anthony added.
"Last year went real well" for the first electronics recycling day hosted by the county," Landfill Director Danny Bagley said. More than 300 pieces of electronic equipment, mostly televisions and computer monitors, were collected from county residents, and the later taken off by Tri-County Industries, he said.
The electronic devices that will be accepted Saturday include: Televisions, computers, computer monitors, printers and scanners, keyboards, cell phones, typewriters, laptop computers, telephones, VCRs, camcorders, radios, video games and video game systems, DVD players, projectors, batteries and copier and fax machines.
This year, Bagley wants to emphasize that even if electronics are broken, that they will still be accepted Saturday at the landfill. That especially includes televisions and computer monitors that have cracks in them.
Wesbell "will take anything that plugs into a wall" and use it as recyclable material, Bagley added.
McGee-Anthony said that America Recycles Day and the event Saturday are efforts to educate people about materials "they didn't know they could recycle," and what they could be used for. The electronics that will be taken up Saturday can be used to make new and refurbished computer monitors and equipment, as well as furniture like office chairs, McGee-Anthony added.
Many of the electronic materials that will be accepted Saturday can be taken to the county's nine recycling centers as well, she said.
By January 2011, it will become illegal for television sets, computer monitors and other electronics to be dumped into state landfills, she said. "We're being proactive" and holding events like this ahead of the state ban, she added. "We are also re-emphasizing the importance of recycling" and the effect it can have on the community, she said.
By recycling, McGee-Anthony said that it would help reduce costs for tax-payers over the long run. They would not have to fund the opening of new landfills operated by counties if waste is reduced through recycling, she added.
"(Recycling) is the easiest thing you can do for the environment."
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