[ale] Fwd: [freecycledecatur] ADMIN - Electronics Recycling Day - Oct. 27.

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Subject: [freecycledecatur] ADMIN - Electronics Recycling Day  - Oct. 27.
Date: Tuesday 23 October 2007 09:36
From: "booksgala" <booksgala at yahoo.com>
To: freecycledecatur at yahoogroups.com

This weekend!!!  Get ready. Schedule your day!
Gather your items in one location now!

http://www.decaturga.com/cgs_citysvcs_sfm_recycling.aspx

Saturday, Oct. 27 ? 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Decatur High School Parking Lot
(Corner of N. McDonough Street and Howard Avenue)

Don't throw away that old PC or printer! Save it and recycle it. This
semi-annual recycling event has been hugely successful at diverting
electronic equipment from landfills, where they may contaminate soil
and water. Batteries, Styrofoam and mercury will also be accepted.

Electronics dropped off that day will be sorted and disassembled into
raw materials and sent to recyclers for reuse.

In addition to electronics, any metro area resident can also drop off
batteries of any type, Styrofoam peanuts, clean Styrofoam blocks free
of foreign objects, and mercury thermometers and thermostats.

"We added the recycling of Styrofoam because it takes up a significant
amount of space in landfills and it is not easy for the average
citizen to recycle it," says Richard Cohen, chair of Decatur's Waste
Management Advisory Board. "Styrofoam does not break down easily in
the landfill and there are a host of products today that can be made
from recycled Styrofoam."

Electronic Equipment for Recycling:

Desktop computers, telephones, mini-towers, telephony equipment,
laptop computers, adding machines, monitors, calculators, servers,
typewriters, workstations, label makers, keyboards, copiers, mice, fax
machines, joystick game controllers, answering machines, printers,
printer cartridges, digital cameras, zip drives, batteries, speakers,
PDAs, pagers, VCRs, hubs, DVD players, routers, cable converter boxes,
scanners, remote controls, digital projectors, stereo equipment UPS
units, radios, main frames, portable CD players, component parts,
portable game players, cables, GPS receivers, 3-in-1 devices,
printer/copier/fax machines.


Other Items: mercury thermometers and thermostats, clean Styrofoam
free of foreign objects (peanuts, packing blocks), any kind of battery.

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