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Spring e-waste drive May 7
Get ready: it’s our first big e-waste drive with Sam’s Club of the year. It’s taking place Saturday, May 7 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Sam’s Club in Jackson. And as a special extra, CP Federal Credit Union is offering a shredding truck to shred your personal and confidential documents. Download our flyer…
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Post-holiday recycling
Get a nifty gadget under your Christmas tree? It’s a good idea to recycle the old version. Recycling Jackson will be open on Saturday, Jan. 8 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. We’ll be taking the usual recyclable materials, as well as e-waste – which means you can recycle that old not-so-flatscreen TV. And now…
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President’s Column: Hope Still Abounds
For those of us that are avid recyclers there was a glimmer of hope this fall that we will have the opportunity to bring others into the recycling fold. If you happened to miss the headlines a couple weeks ago, the Department of Correction put Jackson County on notice that they were going to no…
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Summer e-waste drive totals
We had a great turnout for our summer e-waste drive as a part of the Jackson Community Recycling Day. All-told, we collected 18,595 lbs. of electronics, including 11,800 lbs. of TVs; 2,500 lbs. of PC monitors; 2,500 lbs. of PCs; 1,700 lbs. of miscellaneous materials. That’s more than nine tons of e-waste that won’t go…
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Recycle e-waste with Gazelle
Gazelle, says the New York Times, is a way to recycle your electronic waste (e-waste) and get some money back for your gadgets. Rik Fairlie writes: Gazelle resells most of the items customers send in and uses recycling as a last resort so that fewer products land in landfills. Here’s how it works: Go to…