Hopefully, this weekend’s electronic waste recycling event won’t be the first in Detroit. As with many large cities in the U.S., Detroit, Michigan certainly has its share of unwanted electronics, from computers to laptops to printers through to televisions. The question is: What does everyone do with their unwanted electronics?
Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit joined forced with the Oakland County Campus in Pontiac on Saturday to begin collecting electronic waste, also known as “e-waste”.
Lindsay Chalmers, Director of Business Development for Goodwill, said: “Anything related to a computer, to a PC, in other words it can be a monitor, keyboard, some speakers, it could be the patch cords…it could be a fax copier or a scanner. Anything that they have that they are not using - it does not matter whether it worked or not because 99% of the time it will be recycled into commodities.”
“We have probably recaptured or alleviated form the landfills about fifteen million pounds of electronics. Now that translates into about eight or nine football fields of stuff that would have gone in that will never bio-degrade, it will never disintegrate.”
For those who missed the recycling drive, all hope is not lost. According to Goodwill’s Shamika Robinson, “On Wednesday at Goodwill industries we accept e-waste between eight and two thirty. Monitors, towers, keyboards, anything you can just bring it out on Wednesdays.”
Items not accepted by Goodwill include: televisions, large office copy machines, or toasters.
Call (248) 858-1352 or visit: Goodwill.org for more information.
Source: TV 20 Detroit
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