Throwing out that old TV? Not so fast, the Pennsylvania Covered Device Recycling Act has taken effect. – Also, a list of upcoming e-waste collection events throughout the county.
Residents and businesses across Montgomery County, and throughout the state, are no longer allowed to toss out their old TVs, computers or other electronic devices with their regular trash pickup. Instead, they will have to adhere to the Pennsylvania Covered Device Recycling Act (CDRA), which was passed in 2010 and went into effect Jan. 24. According to a recent press release by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), unless a municipality has a curbside electronics collection program, trash haulers will not collect electronic devices and its components, and will leave them on the curbside. Such electronic devices must be taken to an electronics collection location for proper recycling. “This law is an important step…
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Local grocer helps community go green, just in time for new state law.
On Saturday, Feb. 2, residents in and around Plymouth Meeting will be able to recycle their electronics in a green, or environmentally safe, way. Whole Foods Market Plymouth Meeting will host an E-Cycling Event from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at its location next to the Plymouth Meeting Mall, along Germantown Avenue in Plymouth Township. "We have teamed up with E-Force Recycling for a free E-Cycle Collection event," said Amy Chidichimo, the location's marketing team leader. Acceptable items include: computers, keyboards and mice, CRTs and monitors, modems and telephone boards, hard drives, floppy drives and CD ROMs, phones, fax machines and telecommunication hardware, printers, computer boards, CPUs, memory chips, circuit boards, connecting wires …
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11:08 am on Friday, April 26, 2013
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