9:00am, Saturday March 31:Gray Russell and his team from Advanced Recovery, Inc. - a regional electronics recycling company, were at hand pallets and wrapping film at the ready.
Discarded electronic equipments from Montclair's attics, basements, garages and closets started flowing from the time the Public Works Yard opened.
I visited the event at 9:15, and already several pallets were full and being loaded into the container!
I dropped the 5 or 6 computers picked up from my Sundays cruising the Montclair bulky waste, talked to the New York Times reporter and Gray who were overseeing the operations and took some pictures before leaving at 9:30am.
I am looking forward to reading about it in the Sunday Times and the Montclair Times next Thursday.
If you have visited the event, drop us a line.
More on http://www.montclairnjusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=923&Itemid=336
-- Stephane Mortier
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Here are the results: total “e-scrap” collected (including 529 CRTs/ monitors) = 45,364 lbs. = 22.7 tons
If you multiply the tonnage x $80/ton tipping (dumping) fee at the incinerator, that equals $1,800 saved for the town, plus no collection or hauling required. And the event was free of charge.
So, we recycled some valuable materials (and some equipment will be refurbished and reused), kept some very toxic substances out of the environment (where they become hazardous to human health), and saved the town money all at the same time.
It is an example of the “win-win-win” of sustainability!
Thanks again.
Gray
I love Montclair's electronics recycling program.
But, I recognize that TV (at the bottom left)! It's Mike Autorino's "rule of thirds" television, and generations of Glenfield students used it to learn about producing video. Good times were had!
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