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E-Waste Recycling Event

The Girl Scouts are having their annual E-Waste Recycling Event on Saturday, Jan 22nd, 2011 from 9 am to 1 pm. Getting a new TV, computer, iPod, cell phone this holiday season? Dispose of your old one properly by bringing them to this e-waste recycling day! Did you know your strands of broken Christmas lights count as e-waste? Don't throw them in a landfill! Bring them to the e-waste event!

We accept:

  • computers
  • monitors
  • laptops
  • TVs
  • printers
  • cell phones
  • fax
  • VCR/DVD
  • stereos
  • iPods/MP3 players
  • cameras
  • keyboards
  • scanners
  • broken Christmas lights
  • old cell phone chargers

 

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(for a $5 fee, the e-waste service will provide you with a certificate/agreement to destroy computer & laptop hard drives)

Help your Neighborhood Girl Scouts!

Recycling your e-waste will help reduce the amount of toxins in landfills.

Don't have your old computer be one of the 90% of the 315 million computers not recycled in the U.S.

 

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