[ADEQ Media] ADEQ Announces Electronics Waste Recycling Event will be held Saturday, Sept. 12 at City of Williams Rodeo Grounds

Fri Sep 4 11:08:45 MST 2009

PHOENIX (Sept. 4, 2009) - Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
officials announced today that an electronics waste recycling event will
be held Saturday morning, Sept. 12 from 9 a.m. until noon at the City of
Williams Rodeo Grounds.

ADEQ and its partners -- Green-Tech Assets of Mesa, Grand Canyon
Railway, Xanterra Parks and Resorts, the City of Williams and Williams
Clean and Beautiful - anticipate collecting tons of unwanted computers,
monitors, batteries, chargers, cell phones, VCRs, CD and DVD players,
printers, fax machines, cables and cords during the event. The
recyclable material will be collected at the rodeo grounds, located at
Airport Road and Rodeo Road in the northeast part of Williams.

Neither televisions nor appliances will be accepted during the event.
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 second 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."

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. Green-Tech also participated in
an electronics recycling event last year in Williams which collected six
tons of recyclables.

"We've had other successful events in rural Arizona and we are looking
forward to serving Williams and the surrounding area for the second
straight year," said Karin Harris, business development manager of
Green-Tech Assets.

"We are very excited to continue this project a second year. It was very
successful last year and diverts a lot of electronics material from the
landfill," said Williams Assistant City Manager and Finance Director Joe
Duffy.

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