It seems like there should be a better name for this, but today is the Evergreen Rotary's hard-to-recycle recycling event. We packed our trunk full of lonely old electronics, batteries and styrofoam...
...and headed into town. We arrived around 11:00 am and sat in a decent sized line, but I heard some of the rotary members commenting how much busier they had been that morning. We've been promoting the event through the Evergreen Alliance for Sustainability's Facebook page, so I was thrilled to hear they had already had a huge turnout.
And if there was any question about the success of the event, here's a look at the electronics that had been dropped off already at 11:00 am.
There were 8 of these giant boxes already filled and 2 more they were working on. That's in addition to the huge boxes of styrofoam, the document shredding station, the tire drop off, metal drop off, and clothing collection.
Of course when I got home I spotted the printer and old microwave I had forgotten. D'oh. There's always next year I suppose.
If your town doesn't throw an event like this, check Earth911.org to find out where you can unload hard-to-recycle items in your area.

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