Electronics recycling, May 30, Dilboy Field

[mzrowan.livejournal.com]

Free for residents from Somerville, Cambridge, Arlington & Belmont!

From the Cambridge Recycling Department:


Electronics Recycling Event

When? Saturday, May 30th (weekend after Memorial Day) • 9am-1pm

What? See list below for items accepted.

Where? Somerville: Parking lot next to Dilboy Field, off Route 16/Alewife Brook (Across from Gulf gas station)

Who? Free for residents from Somerville, Cambridge, Arlington & Belmont.
Businesses must pre-register by May 27 and will be invoiced for items ($7 per computer monitor / TV and $5 for each additional item. Commercial loads that do not register by May 27, will be turned away. To register, call 603-422-7711 or email tfatcheric@crtprocessing.com.

This one-time event will be paid for, courtesy of Samsung Corporation in partnership with CRT Processing. Please stay in your vehicle. Items will be removed for you.

YES

- Computer Monitors (flat panels OK)

- Television Sets** (all sizes)

- Personal Computers

- Printers / Scanners / Fax machines

- Calculators

- Cell phones

- Electronic Scales

- Keyboards & Mice

- Microwaves

- Radios

- Stereos

- Telephones

- Toasters

- Vacuums

** Visit www.dtv2009.gov or call 1-888-CALL-FCC for a $40 coupon toward a TV converter box so that you can keep your TV after the digital TV transition on June 12th.

NO

- No White Goods (ex. Air Conditioners, Dehumidifiers, Refrigerators)

- No Batteries

- No Car Parts

- No Chemicals

- No Light Bulbs

- No Hazardous Waste

- No Metal Waste

- No Mercury Items

- No Tires

Questions? Email rmail@cambridgema.gov

Comments

[ron_newman]

Thanks for posting this! Can you add, before the lj-cut, the names of all four participating towns? (Otherwise Somerville residents may skip over it not realizing they can participate.)

[mzrowan.livejournal.com]

Done!

[ron_newman]

Thanks! How did you hear about this event? This is the first I've heard of it.

[mzrowan.livejournal.com]

I get the recycling newsletter from Cambridge, which I got on by requesting a blue box when I lived there. I bet if you emailed that address Randi would add you (the woman who sends them out is Randi Mail).

[ron_newman]

I live in Somerville. Our city government is usually pretty good about announcing such information to the public, but they've said nothing about this -- even though it's happening in Somerville.

(what? her last name is really Mail?)

[mzrowan.livejournal.com]

It is! I always do a double-take when I see "Mail, Randi" in my inbox.

[justjess.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info!

[uberjay.livejournal.com]

OMG this is awesome. Time to clean out the pile of computer equipment in the basement for real!

[olprofbear.livejournal.com]

Would be nice if you offered it to freecyclers or gb-reuse first!

I'd rather see things like this put back in service or repurposed than getting compacted and melted down ...

[redcolumbine.livejournal.com]

But if what you have is SOOOOO OLD (e.g. a perfectly good printer that only speaks DIN-8) nobody wants it, this is a good option... I hope! I dunno; maybe I should save it for the Davis Square yard sale. Now I'm not sure...

[boblothrope.livejournal.com]

You never know -- people reading http://boston.craigslist.org/zip will take some really old stuff. So will people walking by if you leave it at the curb in a high-traffic area.

[ron_newman]

what is gb-reuse?

[olprofbear.livejournal.com]

It's a mailing list like the various freecycles, but has its roots in the MIT reuse mailing list.

greaterboston-reuse@aq.org