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Darke County Solid Waste Mgmt
Recycle your
out of date electronics for free
The Darke County Solid Waste Management District and 1 Shot Services,
Bradford, Ohio, are joining forces to sponsor a “FREE” Electronics
Recycling Day on May 25, 2017, 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 12, 2017. In addition to the Darke County
Solid Waste Management District Office at 684 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which go out of date as fast as they come on the market, can be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. There is a limit of 5 televisions per
address/resident. 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 Bradford. The electronics will be disassembled for
recycling. Note: All computer hard drives will be
drilled at the fairgrounds. 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, 1 Shot 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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