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The city of Fortuna and U.S. Recyclers at the Koop are holding a free electronic-waste collection event Saturday at Rohner Park.
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WHAT: Hilmar Unified School District will serve as a collector of electronic waste on Saturday, Sept. 9th from 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Teaming with Fresno-based Electronic Recyclers, the school district will provide students, their families and the community at large an opportunity to safely unload their old computers, monitors, printers, television sets and other out-dated, unusable or unwanted electronic items for proper recycling.
The free event is designed to provide Californians with the opportunity to finally get rid of those old unwanted items, long since replaced and gathering dust in garages or storage units throughout the State. The recycling event will also provide much-needed funds for the district to buy new computers and other technology.
It is illegal to simply throw an unwanted television or computer monitor in the trash in the state of California. Electronic items have toxic elements in them that are environmentally hazardous when they are dumped into landfills. By law, such products must now be recycled properly and in ways that won't harm the environment. In an attempt to help the local community, the Hilmar Unified School District has become proactive in its efforts to collect electronic waste. The electronics collected will be trucked away and recycled by Fresno-based Electronic Recyclers, the largest recycler of electronic waste in California and ilmar Unified's partner for this event. Each year, Californians replace hundreds of thousands of TVs, computers, monitors and other electronic devices. Plus, they store literally millions more that are not used any more in homes, garages and businesses. Electronic products contain valuable resources such as metal, plastic and glass, which can and should be recycled instead of thrown away. WHERE: Hilmar Unified School District, 7807 Lander Avenue, Hilmar, CA 95324. The collection will take place in front of the Transportation Dept with plentiful signage to direct people to the exact location. WHEN: Saturday, Sept. 9, from 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Ever wonder where old computers go to die?
Journalist Elizabeth Grossman did and became so concerned about the tons of electronic waste piling up around the world that she wrote a book about it. Link
A bill designed to establish an environmentally sound electronic waste plan has been unanimously approved by the Suffolk County Legislature.
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Lately, its been high tech waste dumping in less developed countries thats become all the rage. First world computers end up in these landfills because developed countries ship them there either as charity (the idea is that these computers actually still work) or as waste. The reason why they go to all the trouble of shipping their old computers to countries like India and China instead of dumping them in their own landfills is that computers are toxic.
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[From the Burbank Leader]
City has landfill and a robust recycling program, but growing amounts of electronic waste are a fast-growing problem. Read the entire article
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