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.
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Here’s a list of what you can bring and all the event details.
Community Recycling Event at Revolution Hall
The community recycling event is taking place Saturday, April 13, 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 $3. The price is $3 per bag for plastics (grocery sized bag). Plastic film, usable garden tools and household items, and e-waste are free.
Here’s a list of what you can bring to the event:
- Straws and utensils
- Screw on caps & Contact lens blister packs
- Plastic bread clips, clear media containers and tape dispensers
- #1 PET plastic
- #2 HDPE plastic
- #4 LDPE plastic
- #5 PP plastic
- #6 PS plastic
- Usable garden tools
- Usable small kitchen goods, housewares, and linens
E-Waste
Have unused or broken electronics around the house? The event is also accepting e-waste, including:
- Computers, laptops, TVs & 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
The event is held in Revolution Hall’s parking lot, 1300 SE Stark St. in Portland. For more information, view the event page.
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