You have several opportunities to help Mother Earth in the coming week, beginning with a recycling event tomorrow at Silver Beach and again on the Berrien Springs Campus of Andrews University next Wednesday. Both are open to the public, but only the Andrews event will be accepting items from the business community. The Silver Beach event is not equipped to handle business recycling at this time.
Tomorrow's event, Saturday, September 24, 2016, will take place from 9am until 1pm at Silver Beach County Park below the bluff in St. Joseph at 101 Broad Street. That event, coordinated by the Berrien County Parks Department, is for Berrien County residents only, and cannot accept business waste.
The targeted items for recall in this session include household chemicals and electronics, however all of the following will be accepted at the park:
- Unwanted home, garden, yard, garage & workshop chemicals, liquids and cleaners that are poisonous, toxic, flammable or hazardous, such as oil-based paints, stains, paint thinners/strippers, varnish, mineral spirits, turpentine, spray paint, automotive liquids and the like…
- Oil filters, fuels, pesticides and herbicides…
- Aerosols, cleaners, acids, bases…
- Propane cylinders that are 1-lb size or smaller…
- Photo chemicals, mercury items, pool chemicals…
- Toiletries, adhesives, driveway sealers…
- Batteries of all kinds and sizes…
- Fluorescent lights including compact, tube and circular…
- Pills, liquid medications, sharps & needles
- Electronics and appliances (anything with a cord and items that run on batteries)
All items will be accepted free of charge with two types of exceptions:
- Computer monitors of all kinds require a $10 fee…
- Television sets of all kinds required a $20 fee…
- (You can make checks for electronics recycling fees to "Green Earth Electronics Recycling")
These items will not be accepted:
- Latex paints (you can simply dry them out and place with regular household trash)
- Gas grill sized propane tanks…
- Fireworks…
- Ammunition…
- Business waste…
You can learn more online at this link http://www.berriencounty.org/recycle
Andrews University, in partnership with Green Earth Electronics Recycling, will conduct its biannual electronics recycling event in the Andrews University Transportation Garage on Wednesday, September 28th from 3pm until 7pm. Community members, businesses and residents from surrounding communities are encouraged to recycle their unwanted electronic items.
Accepted items at Andrews include computers, laptops, smart phones, monitors, TVs, telephones, cameras, DVD players, cords/cables, printers, toner cartridges, cell phones, refrigerators, air conditioners, appliances and any other electronic items or items with a cord.
As is the case at Berrien County's event, a hazardous waste fee will be collected for all monitors at $10 each and all TVs at $20 each, while all other items are recycle free of charge.
All computer hard drives will be wiped according to U.S. Department of Defense specifications or will be shredded. Businesses are encouraged to pre-register by emailing to pickup@greenearth1.com or by calling 269-326-1232.
Green Earth Electronics Recycling is headquartered in St. Joseph and is focused on keeping unwanted electronics out of landfills by using the best practices in information destruction and recycling. They are a registered recycler with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and services include corporate and institutional pickups and community drop-off events such as this.
