[ADEQ Media] ADEQ Announces Electronics Waste Recycling Event will be held Saturday, Oct. 17 at Town of Payson Multi-Event Center

Tue Oct 13 14:20:49 MST 2009

PHOENIX (Oct. 13, 2009) - Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
officials announced today that an electronics waste recycling event will
be held Saturday morning, Oct. 17 from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. at the Town
of Payson Multi-Event Center, 1400 S. Beeline Highway.

ADEQ and its partners - Payson Water Department, Gila County, and
Green-Tech Assets of Mesa -- anticipate collecting tons of unwanted
televisions, computers, monitors, batteries, chargers, cell phones,
VCRs, CD and DVD players, printers, small appliances, fax machines,
cables and cords during the event. The recyclable material will be
collected at the Multi-Event Center, in the south part of Payson across
Beeline Highway from Mazatzal Hotel and Casino.

Green-Tech Assets uses state of the art software to erase all hard
drives and will also provide machinery on site to crush hard drives if
customers so desire. Green-Tech Assets also will provide companies and
individuals donating e-waste a certificate of disposal for their
records.

"Electronics waste is a pressing and growing problem in Arizona and
throughout the country and the proper disposal of it can become a great
opportunity as well," said ADEQ Director Benjamin H. Grumbles. "This is
our third big e-waste recycling event and we'll be sponsoring similar
recycling roundups throughout the state in the coming year. We should
always remember in our daily lives the three Rs - reduce, reuse and
recycle."

"The Town of Payson is pleased to work with the Arizona Department of
Environmental Quality and Gila County on another important community
recycling event," said Buzz Walker, the Town of Payson's Water
Department Manager. "Recycling opportunities are severely limited in
most areas of rural Arizona, so recycling events like this satisfy a
need for those citizens who want to make a difference in the wise use of
material resources."

ADEQ and Green-Tech Assets sponsored the largest electronics recycling
event ever in rural Arizona in late August when nearly 30 tons of
recyclables were collected in Show Low and disposed of in an
environmentally sensitive manner, rather than having the electronic
devices take up valuable landfill space. ADEQ and Green-Tech also
participated in an electronics recycling event last month in Williams
which collected more than seven tons of recyclables.

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