[va-richmond-general] Electronics Recycling

["Al Warfield" <warfield101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Computer and Electronics Recycling 

Drop off Day

Saturday, October 29th

St. Christopher's Lower School

 

400 million computers with their dozens of hazardous metals will become 
obsolete in the next 3 years!  You can reduce toxic metals in our environment 
by recycling them.  Computer Recycling Initiative is organizing another 
recycling day at St. Christopher's Lower School on St. Christopher's Road, 
Saturday October 29th.  Outdated computers, monitors, TVs, printers and other 
electronic devices will be collected from 8:30 am through 1:30 pm.  The event 
is open to the public.  We are pleased to have a recycling firm collecting the 
electronics which will refurbish some items and  recycle the others so that 
toxic metals found in electronics do not become environmental hazards.

  All hard drives are wiped clean to meet Department of Defense standards of 
data destruction.  

 No charge for computer towers, printers, faxes, cell phones, key boards and 
more. The following charges apply to defray the costs of recycling.  ($5 
monitors; $10 small TV's; $25 TV's larger than 25")

 

Televisions with their lead filled screens are the next big environmental 
threat as analogue TV's are replaced by sleeker, flat screen TV's.  By the end 
of 2006 it is estimated that computers and televisions will become obsolete at 
an alarming rate of 160,000 per day!  

 

CRI's last two events collected almost 40 tons of electronics, saving landfills 
from dozens of toxins.  You can make a difference by recycling!

 

Questions:  Contact: Carrie Dorsey   288-1198

                                   Susan Mistr     285-3185 x310

Computerecycle.org



Passed along by Al Warfield

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