The City’s Linda Harris sends along this announcement detailing Spring Electronics Recycling Day on Saturday, March 2, 9 am-1 pm.
Bring your old cell phones, cameras, PC components, and other outdated electronic equipment for recycling. Almost anything with an electrical cord can be recycled except microwave ovens. Electronics dropped off will be sorted and broken down into raw materials for reuse. You can also drop off batteries of any type, mercury thermometers and thermostats. Drop off your old electronics between 9 am and 1 pm. Early drop-offs are not possible. There is a $10 fee for recycling TVs (exact change required). There is no charge to recycle other items.
For information and last-minute updates, email [email protected] or callRecycle these items at no charge:
Adding machines
Answering machines
Batteries, any kind
Cable converter boxes
Cables
Calculators
Component parts
Copiers
Desktop computers
Digital cameras
Digital projectors
DVD playersElectric lawn mowers
Fax machines
Garden equipment
GPS receivers
Hubs
Game controllers
Keyboards
Label makers
Laptop computers
Main frames
Mice
Mini-towersMonitors
Pagers
PDAs
Portable CD players
Portable game players
Printer cartridges
Printers
Radios
Remote controls
Routers
Scanners
ServersSpeakers
Stereo equipment
Telephones
Telephony equipment
3-in-1 devices
Typewriters
UPS units
VCRs
Workstations
Zip drives
What can we do with microwaves? I have two that have bit the dust and are now collecting dust in the attic. When I put them up there I thought I would just recycle them on the next Electronics Recycling Day.
If you want to recycle electronics every month (second Saturday of the month) and you want to recycle microwaves you can go to the Keep Atlanta Beautiful recycling center on Irwin St (Walden School).
http://www.keepatlantabeautiful.org/?page_id=77
Cheers,
K
Thanks Kilroy!
Wow, I have been looking for a place to recycle my three-in-one devices 😉
I live 6 years in Decatur but still don’t know where to bring used batteries for recycling. All suggestions welcome. Thanks.
This is causing me to have questions I never knew I had:
– Why not microwaves? Are they really as dangerous as some claim? And if you can’t recycle them, what can you do with them?
– Main frames? People have main frames sitting around waiting to be recycled? Don’t they take up entire rooms and have to be store at cool temperatures?
– What is telephony equipment? Or for that matter, telephony? Not to be confused with ESP, telepathy, right?
– Electric, but not gas or hand-pushed, lawn mowers? So electric lawn mowers are more like computers than motors?
– But garden equipment is ok? This totally confuses me. I thought the theme was electronics. None of my garden equipment plugs in except the leaf blower and hedge trimmer. And even those seem much more like motors than electronics. But a microwave doesn’t count? Do they offer industrial arts/shop at Evening at Emory? I think I need it.
– Microwaves are perfectly safe to recycle. They generally fall into the ‘white goods’ category of products including major kitchen appliances and laundry equipment. Microwaves were the last of these to come along and has had a problem finding it’s correct designation. It has finally settled in white goods. Those items are more appropriately recycled by local steel recyclers as opposed to electronics recyclers. So recycle your microwave! : )
-Main frame computers are perfectly acceptable. If you have a large one and need help moving, hauling or recycling it, the recycler for this event will be glad to help.
-Telephony “encompasses the general use of equipment to provide communication over distances, specifically by connecting telephones to each other”. (Wikipedia) Cell phones, old switch and cell tower equipment, etc.
-Electric mowers, yes. Gas powered, no. Remember, electronics is anything operated by electricity or batteries. Gas and oil operated equipment is more appropriately recycled by steel recyclers. If your electric leaf blower and hedge trimmer no longer work, bring them on Sat. the 2nd ! : )