[va-richmond-general] Electronics Recycling
- From: "Al Warfield" <warfield101@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Audubon Listserve" <va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 21:38:15 -0400
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 Outdated computers, monitors, TVs, printers and other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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