Working in the Recycling Zone

Harvey Hoch (top photo, left) and Jack Nerlinger rest after loading up sets of encyclopedias in the Recycling Collection Zone during the 2012 Green Fest. Rick Schulman (bottom) packs up some of the collected electronic recyclables during the 2012 event. Hoch and Schulman are members of the Green Fest Committee. The Community Center parking lot serves as the Recycling Zone for the daylong event. (Photos by Barbara Wetzel)

2013 Collectors of recyclables

More than two dozen collection stations will be set up in the Community Center parking lot. Items listed below will be collected. So save them up and drop them off when you arrive at the park on May 11.

SWAPS, SALES, SHREDDING & DRUG TURN-IN

• ·          Gently Used Clothing & Sports Equipment Swap & Sale
• ·       Paper Shredding - four-box limit (10-2 only)
•         Prescription & OTC drug turn-in (10-2 only)

-Eggs cartons

-Large block #6 Styrofoam

-Packing peanuts/air pillows/small, clean boxes            

-Plastic flower pots & trays

-Solid color stretchy plastic bags (including newspaper bags)

2. Medical equipment, eyeglasses

-Metal wheelchairs, walkers, crutches & canes

-Eyeglasses & cases

3. Batteries

-Rechargeable batteries

-Car & lawnmower batteries

4. Books, magazines

-Used books, textbooks, encyclopedias

-National Geographics, other magazines

5.  Metal

-Aluminum

-Scrap metal

6. Jars, pull tabs, medicine bottles

-Canning jars & lids

-Aluminum can pull tabs, especially colored ones

-Empty prescription drug bottles (no labels)

7. Miscellaneous items

-Christmas tree light strings

-Coated electrical wire

-Bikes

-Sewing machines

-Band instruments

-Greeting cards (front panels - all themes, except holiday)

-Wine corks - including synthetic

-Plastic gift & credit cards, etc. (may be cut or shredded)

8. Clothing, hangers, sneakers

-Wire clothes hangers - clean, no rust

-Old sneakers - any brand

-Denim jeans, jackets, etc.

9. Computers, electronics, phones, cartridges

-Television sets (residential, 1 per household - no consoles)

-Computers

-Computer accessories

-Cell phones

-Ink cartridges

-CDs & DVDs - no cases

-VHS tapes

-Laptop computers

-Digital SLR cameras

-SLR lenses

-Digital cameras

-Handheld game systems

-Game consoles & Video games

-iPads & Tablets

-iPods & MP3 players

-E-Book readers

-Range finders

-Sky Caddies

-Mobile Hotspots

-MiFi devices

-4G USB Air Cards

-Portable GPS devices

-Radar detectors

-TI graphing calculators

10. Household recyclables

-Paper, cardboard, catalogs, phone books

-Food-grade glass bottles & jars

-Metal cans and #1-7 plastic containers

Please go to ARCHIVES for recycling information

from Green Fests in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.