Swap your e-junk for a potplant
The City of Sydney is offering a free electronic recycling service for City of Sydney residents on Sunday 1 March 2009 between 9am and 3pm at the Epsom Road Depot (94 Epsom Road, Zetland).
Residents can bring in their unwanted e-waste such as old televisions, monitors, printers, fax machines, phones, projectors, game machines, cameras and speakers to be recycled and reused.
And if that’s not incentive enough, more than 200 potted plants that were used to form part of the City’s Living Colour floral display will be handed out for free.
The City’s first e-waste collection service in 2008 was attended by more than 300 people who dropped off 9 tonnes of electronic goods to be recycled.
Electronic goods often contain materials such as lead and mercury which when thrown into the garbage and sent to landfill can leach through the ground and into the water table and cause irreparable environmental and human harm.
Usable electronic products which are still in good working order but no longer wanted should be given to charity organisations or re-use centres.
Electronic waste collected on the day will be taken to the Sims E-waste facility at Minto, where between 95 and 98 per cent of the raw material will be recovered and reused in manufacturing.
Future e-waste collection dates:
Sunday 14 June 2009
Sunday 6 September 2009
Sunday 6 December 2009
For more information please phone 9265-9333 or visit
www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au > Residents > Waste and Recycling
