Allen Countians with electronic waste to dispose can drop it off between 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Recreation Community Building in Riverside Park.
Stereos, cellphones, satellite dishes and more will all be collected free of charge. Computer monitors require a $5 fee to cover disposal of heavy metals in the monitors. TVs cannot be collected.
The collection is a community service project of the Gifted Explorations class at Iola High School.
Students will take collected e-waste to an EPA approved disposal site in Topeka after the collection. Donations to help defray transportation and disposal costs are welcome.
Students noted that nationwide, 80 percent of all household electronics end up in landfills, including 130,000 computers each day. Unless properly recycled, e-waste poses an environmental hazard due to heavy metals inherent in the equipment, students said.
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