Middlesex Community College’s
Computer Club is celebrating Earth Week by offering another free e-cycling collection
event. Anyone with old or unused electronics are invited to bring them to MxCC’s lower
parking lot at 100 Training Hill Road on the Middletown campus for easy, safe,
environmentally sensitive disposal on Thursday, April 23 from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
A wide variety of computers, iPods, televisions, radios and other electronics
will be accepted for recycling. Please
note that air conditioners, washers, dryers, refrigerators, lightbulbs,
or household batteries cannot be accepted. At the end of the
day, all items will be picked up by Green Monster e-Cycling of West Hartford,
and will be fully recycled for parts and re-harvesting of
precious metals (for computers, the company first destructs all data
stored on hard drives).
During the
e-cycling event, MxCC’s Computer Club students will be accepting voluntary
donations for its annual computer giveaway contest for needy MxCC students.
Green Monster e-Cycling (www.greenmonsterecycling.com) has a strict zero-landfill policy,
meaning all items it collects are broken down into basic components and passed
on to refineries and smelters where precious metals are harvested. By-products
of all electronic components are eventually added to items such as concrete,
fence posts, or glass. Green Monster partners only with EPA-compliant leaders
in the downstream recycling industry that have been audited.
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