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Recycle out of
date electronics
The Darke County Solid Waste Management District and Green Wave
Electronics Recycling, Indianapolis, IN, are joining forces to sponsor
a “FREE” Electronics Recycling Day on May 21, 2015, from 9:00 a.m. to
5:00 p.m., in the swine barn at the Darke County Fairgrounds.
Vehicles will enter the Gate 2(near Wayne Healthcare), will go through
the swine barn to be unloaded and will go out the back gate of the
fairgrounds to prevent congestion. During this event, the
district will accept non-perishable food items to be taken to Grace
Resurrection food pantry.
Anyone interested in participating in this program must be
preregistered by May 8, 2015. In addition to the Darke County
Solid Waste Management District Office at 603 Wagner Ave; Suite C in
Greenville, telephone 937-547-0827, preregistration forms can also be
printed from the district’s website at www.co.darke.oh.us/solidwaste
. Preregistration prevents long lines and longer waits because
each person participating is assigned a specific time to bring in
electronics. In other counties where preregistration did not
occur, participants waited as long as two hours to recycle their
electronics.
The program, which is “free” to all Darke County businesses,
industries, schools, nonprofit organizations and residents, will
involve the participation and support of nine Darke County agencies to
make it work. These Darke County agencies are the adult probation
office’s community service and litter collection department, the board
of county commissioners, buildings and grounds department, common pleas
court, municipal court, general health district’s environmental
division, and the agricultural society. Best of all, neither your
tax dollars nor the county’s general fund are being used to fund this
program!! The Solid Waste District uses fees collected from area
disposal companies to fund this program.
Electronics equipment can be very expensive to throw away or even
recycle. Local businesses can pay high dollars to have
electronics hauled to a disposal site. Computers, especially,
which go out of date as fast as they come on the market, can be
extremely costly. Darke County residents can pay as much as $20
per monitor to have their computer or television monitors
recycled. Because of the expense, many organizations have large
storage areas full of equipment that they will never use again.
Many homeowners also have used electronics building up in their attics,
basements, and garages.
All equipment that is brought in for recycling will be picked up and
taken to Indianapolis, IN. The electronics will be disassembled
for recycling. The company will not accept large and heavy items
such as washers, dryers, stoves, dehumidifiers, refrigerators and air
conditioners, which contain freon. Other than these items, GWR
will accept any electronics, computer equipment, and peripheral.
Some of these items may include computers (CPUs, CRTs, PCs), keyboards,
monitors, printers, typewriters, adding machines, calculators,
table-top copiers, portable televisions (no consoles), small kitchen
appliances such as microwaves and toaster ovens, radios, telephonic
equipment, manufacturing equipment, cables, cords, and other electronic
wiring.
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