Community Recycling Event at Revolution Hall

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Need to get rid of hard-to-recycle items? Bring them to New Seasons Market’s community recycling event.

Community organizations James Recycling, Waste Free Advocates, Simple Sundries, Community Warehouse and Green Century Electronics Recycling are collecting items that you can’t recycle in your curbside bins. This includes plastics, electronics and select household items.

Here’s a list of what you can bring and all the event details.

The community recycling event is taking place Saturday, September 21, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Bring your hard-to-recycle materials and clean, pre-sorted recyclables not accepted in your curbside bins.

The price for recycling ranges from free to $10.

The price is $3 per bag for plastics (grocery sized bag). Styrofoam is $10 per 45 gallon bag. Other items and e-waste listed below are free.

Here’s a list of what you can bring to the event:

Unnumbered Straws & Utensils
Unnumbered Screw on caps & Contact lens blister packs
#1 PET plastic
#2 HDPE plastic
#4 LDPE plastic
#5 PP plastic
#6 PS including bread clips, CD containers, tape containers and cassette containers
Styrofoam. Must be clean, dry and without tape, labels, glue, ink, paint, food residue and sorted into the following categories:
- Cups
- Styrofoam packing peanuts
- Take out containers, meat trays and egg cartons
- Blocks

Other Materials

Other accepted materials at no charge:

Stretchy plastic film
Grocery bags
Produce bags
Ice bags
Ziploc bags
Dry cleaning bags
Newspaper bags
Cereal bags
Case overwraps
Plastic shipping sleeves (including Amazon envelopes)
Bubble wrap
Usable garden tools
Usable small kitchen goods, housewares, and linens for – Community Warehouse

E-Waste

Have unused or broken electronics around the house? The event is also accepting e-waste for free, including:

Computers, laptops, TVs and monitors (all types)
Hard drives (secure data destruction provided)
Misc. computer components such as floppy drives, Printed Circuit Boards (PCB), etc.)
Cords, wires, chargers, power strips
Servers, switches, routers, hubs, modems, networking devices, communications equipment
Point of Sale equipment
Printers, scanner, fax, copiers, keyboards, mice
Misc. office machines, misc. Electronics
VCRs, DVD players, cable or satellite equipment, stereo or audio components
Testing equipment
Telephones, cell phones (with or without batteries), PDAs, handheld games, gaming consoles or systems, cameras
Returned or unwanted products
UPS (uninterruptible power supply) and other lead acid batteries, laptop batteries, cell phone batteries, Li-On batteries
Small or large appliances (which includes microwaves, toasters, blenders, etc.)
Electric power tools
Ferrous and non-ferrous metals
Air conditioners
Bare tube CRT