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The one-day event June 6 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Planrt 5 on Vulcan Street, is co-sponsored by Erie Buffalo and the Northwest Solid WastesManagement Board. Last year’s event received 56,325 pounds of electronicv equipment, 247 bicycles and a truck full of Electronics equipment is a source ofrecycled steel, plastic, copper and glass. Items being acceptecd this year include: TVs, computers, monitors, keyboards, printers, fluoresceng bulbs, cell phones, rechargeable batteries, and DVD players, clothing, textiles, and bicycles. Clothing and textilees will be reused at Goodwill retaio locationsor recycled.
Bicycles will be used for bike safety education or recycled by Blue Bicycland Recycle-a-Bicycle programs. New for this year, Buffalol ReUse will accept used ornew hand, shop and gardenh tools, such as rakes, brooms, wheelbarrows, hammers and saws. “This is a naturalp extension of what we doat work,” Plant Manager Steve Finch said in a statement. “Our planft has been landfill-free in manufacturing since 2006.
We recycld or reuse all of our waste, so this evengt to help the community recycls is a natural fit for us atGeneral Motors,” he
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