Styrofoam No Longer Accepted at Decatur Fall Electronics Recycling Day – Sept 29th
Decatur Metro | September 6, 2012From the City of Decatur website…
Please note, styrofoam will no longer be collected at Decatur’s Electronics Recycling Day. This material will be accepted at the new Paper Shredding and Styrofoam Recycling Event this fall, date TBA.
Don’t throw away that old cell phone, camera or PC component! Save it and recycle it at Decatur’s free Electronics Recycling event. This event has been hugely successful at diverting electronic equipment from landfills, where they may contaminate soil and water.
The next event takes place Saturday, Sept. 29th from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Decatur Public Works located at 2635 Talley Street. Electronics dropped off that day will be sorted and disassembled into raw materials or cleaned for re use.
Recyclables must be dropped off during the hours of the event. Early drop-offs are not possible. Almost anything with an electrical cord can be recycled except microwave ovens.
TV’s will be recycled for a minimal fee of $10 cash only per TV set with exact change. There is no charge to recycle other items. Any metro area resident can participate.
For additional information call:
- Sean Woodson
- Solid Waste Superintendent
- 678-898-8562
Click through to the site for the full list of accepted items along with an FAQ
YEAH! I can finally clear some space in my garage. It seems as soon as an electronics recycling day passes, I start collecting more for the next one.
Not that I have any room in my home (plus the wife would kill me), but is picking for personal use discouraged or have the liability lawyers taken away all the fun? Just curious. One person’s two-ton CRT monitor is another’s upgrade, after all. Plus it would seem preferable from an environmental standpoint to squeeze as much life out of an item as possible.
Here’s a question:
Do you actually save electronic stuff for all these months, or do you just dump it in the trash because it is too long to bother with storing it in between events?
I save mine in a box in the garage even if, like this time, it’s just one old radio.
I have a box or bag in my car that I fill gradually until the next Electronics Recycling Day. The reasons I keep it in my car for the whole 6-month wait are:
1) I get so distraught when I accidentally forget that it’s ERD again and I go driving by it 3 minutes before closing knowing that I have 6 months worth of stuff at home
2) It doesn’t clutter up the house and garage
3) It adds a certain cachet to the ambience of the mini-storage unit, I mean mini-van
You are going to upset a lot of Prius owners around here. Do you know what that extra weight is doing to your fuel efficiency?
This has been mentioned to me many times, mostly by family members. My response is that 1) I really don’t drive much, almost never OTP except on trips; 2) for trips, I do empty the back of the mini-van of the recycling box, gym bag, reusable shopping bags, and folding chair for kids sports events; 3) if someone else, ahem, would share the calendar scheduling/remembering responsibility, I would happily leave the box in the garage; and 4) all the junk left in the car by others, ahem,–like umbrellas, toys, books, homework, sports equipment, shoes, clothes, food, etc.–is extra weight too so if you are so darn concerned about the environment, then take care of that.
Where can I recycle old vacuum cleaners and household appliances? I have some that just died.
A blender, a hot water pot, and 2 vacuums.
Just my luck I have things they don’t accept.
Are you sure they won’t accept them?
“Almost anything with an electrical cord can be recycled except microwave ovens.”
Sadly I am sure. The full text from the website reads.
“Almost anything with an electrical cord can be recycled at the event EXCEPT microwave ovens, furniture, light fixtures, household appliances, lamps, vacuum cleaners. “
Whatever happened to junkyards where you could bring these sorts of things and then others could come to the wise junkyardman and ask if certain items/parts were available? Is digital junk less sellable? Less repairable? Or has the proportion of the population that is unhandy like me grown so demand is down?
+1 Half the stories about my grandfather are related in some way to things he 1) found at the junkyard and brought home and fixed up or 2) he brought to the junkyard with some sort of hilarious consequence.
My father believes that anything can and should be fixed. During one visit, my desktop keyboard stopped working. To prove a point and teach his grandson something, he carefully took off most of the keys, blew and wiped the keyboard clean of all the accumulated crud, put it back together. It looked beautiful but still didn’t work. He studied keyboards online and claimed he knew that he could fix it with enough time and careful work. But I needed a keyboard to get some work done so I went out to Office Depot and bought a replacement for $14. It worked immediately, no software installation needed. My father was shocked–he rememberd when the keyboards at mainframe terminals cost $500. All his hours of work weren’t even worth $14. He was rather disgusted with the state of the world.
You can bring those items to the Keep Atlanta Beautiful recycling day – first Saturday of the month (Buckhead) or second Saturday of the month (Old Fourth Ward). http://www.keepatlantabeautiful.org/programs/Recycling.asp
They take styrofoam, too!
I think digital electronic stuff is unfortunately less repairable. Also, due to low wages in Far East, the cost advantage of repair vs replace is no longer as compelling. If we ever moved manufacturing back to the USA we might create a lot of repair jobs too.
If you have stuff that you think is repairable, you can put it on freecycle or craigs list free list and see if anyone wants it. I got a hit with some old ceiling fans not too long ago.
Is this styrofoam different than the styrofoam already listed as being acceptable for normal curbside recycling?
Recycling will not take big pieces (or at least they’re not supposed to).