FreeLists / va-richmond-general / [va-richmond-general] Re: Electronics Recycling Wrong Number!

["Jim Blowers" <jimvb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This seems like a good place to get rid of electronic waste, caused by rapid
obsolescence of electronic equipment and in some cases by malfunctions and
damage. 

 

But I note that the telephone number below is wrong. It should be 282-3185,
same extension. I found this out because I called them. Someone must be
getting a lot of wrong numbers about this. 

 

I intend to take advantage of this, for it seems there is no other way to
dispose of electronics in this area other than the landfill.

 

Jim Blowers

 

  _____  

From: va-richmond-general-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:va-richmond-general-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Al Warfield
Sent: Saturday, 2005 October 1 21:38
To: Audubon Listserve
Subject: [va-richmond-general] Electronics Recycling

 

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  Outdated computers, monitors, TVs, printers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