WAYNE – With the community of Wayne striving to achieve “Zero Waste” several car and truck loads were accepted during the Sixth annual Electronics Recycling event this weekend.
Saturday morning, vehicles lined down third street between Lincoln and Pear
l Streets in two lanes facing east as members of the Wayne Green Team along with athletes from the Wayne State College men’s basketball and women’s soccer teams unloaded the electronics.
Sandy Brown with the Wayne Green Team said Saturday’s time was a little bit shorter from 8 until 10:30 a.m.
“We found, based on previous years, that things really slowed down at the end,” said Brown. “It was kind of a lot of effort to have all these volunteers standing around with not a lot to do. We can tell, our community wants to wrap this event up, they want to be done early Saturday morning and maybe go watch some football.”
The shorter time also allowed the Green Team to be more efficient and cut down on their costs.
There was a requested donation of $10 per carload or $50 for a business load of a reasonable size. Other fees included $5 per monitor along with $10 charges for TV’s and microwaves (no charge for flat screens). The fees help fund Wayne Green Team programs and other types of “Zero Waste” programs.
The community of Wayne comes to rely on electronic recycling and recycling in general as Brown added there are toxic substances in electrons that they don’t want in the landfill.
“This way it gets recycled properly by our vendor,” Brown added. “Broken down, dis-assembled and parts put in the right spot for further processing and re-use.”
The Wayne Green Team again worked with DataShield Corporation out of Omaha where two trucks were loaded.
Two main events that the Wayne Green Team puts on are the Electronics Recycling event in the Fall and the Earth Day event in April. The group continues to be active in the community but needs your help.
“When people put garbage in our recycle bin, they’re contaminating it and most of those recyclables then have to be tossed out,” Brown mentioned. “We know that a lot of people are trying to do the right thing and we want to continue to encourage that.”
Brown wants to remind those who recycle that plastic utensils are not allowed in their 32 recycling bins located in Wayne parks and public areas.
Visit the cityofwayne.org/greenteam, like them on Facebook or call 402-375-1733 for more information.
