Don't just toss that TV in the trash; recycling event will accept e-waste Private company organizing project By Mike Lee UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
September 14, 2006 A private company is picking up where the city of San Diego left off by organizing a countywide recycling event Saturday for household electronic devices that were banned from landfills in February. Such collections have been hugely popular, drawing more than 3,000 residents to Qualcomm Stadium a few years ago. But San Diego's grant funding for such events has dried up at the same time as demand is growing. Expanding interest in electronics recycling is driven by the recent state prohibition against throwing numerous types of hazardous household waste into the trash. Besides electronics, banned items include batteries, some aerosol cans, fluorescent light tubes and thermostats that contain mercury. read more today ...... http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20060914-9999-7m14recycle.html -- Neil Schneider pacneil_at_linuxgeek_dot_net http://www.paccomp.com Key fingerprint = 67F0 E493 FCC0 0A8C 769B 8209 32D7 1DB1 8460 C47D "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." [Theodore Roosevelt] 1918 -- Neil Schneider pacneil_at_linuxgeek_dot_net http://www.paccomp.com Key fingerprint = 67F0 E493 FCC0 0A8C 769B 8209 32D7 1DB1 8460 C47D "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." [Theodore Roosevelt] 1918 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
