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Monthly Electronic recycling Midtown

Pat Gardner, the State Representative for the 57th district (Morningside and Surrounding Areas) has sent notice that they are holding an E-Recycling day at Grady High School on May 17th and each 3rd Saturday of every month.

pat@patgardner.org wrote:

E-Recycling Drop-off May 17, 2008, come out and join your Midtown friends and neighbors in helping keep Midtown the greenest neighborhood in Atlanta. Midtown Neighborhood Association has arranged for an e-recycling drop off on the 3rd Saturday of every month at Grady High School in the parking lot on 8th St.

Here is the opportunity for you to dispose of those old computers, TVs, CFL’s and other electronics. To be absolutely safe, Be sure to make user that no personal information remains on those old hard drives before making such a disposal.

Here is more info from the Walker Foundation Website

http://walker-foundation.org/net/calendar/details.aspx?s=66416.0.53.35

Peggy Denby, Executive Director of Keep Atlanta Beautiful (also a customer of mine) is a key member is the establishment of this program.

The new Midtown e-Waste program officially started last month to provide Atlanta residents a way to properly dispose of their old computers, TVs, CFL’s and other electronics. During the Keep Atlanta Beautiful Earth Day cleanups in April, more than 30,000 pounds of e-Waste was collected at Grady High School and recycled. E-Waste materials tend to pile up in homes and if discarded in landfills, lead oxide, mercury and other highly toxic hazardous waste can leach into the ground. KAtlB partnered with Georgia eWaste, a local electronics recycler that recycles and reuses various components. For example, the lead in glass computer monitors and TV screens can be recovered, then the glass recycled, plastic housing can be ground to smaller pieces and recycled for use in various items, circuit boards and chips can be reused to repair older electronics and metal components are separated and sold for scrap.