E-Waste Collection Day Set for Nov. 9

NORMAN, OKLA. - The City of Norman, in partnership with United Electronics Recycling, will host an electronics waste recycling event from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024 at Reaves Park, 2501 Jenkins Ave.

Participants will enter the drive-thru event from the south on Jenkins and exit at the north. While residents remain in their vehicles, staff will remove the electronic waste from their vehicles.

"We like to say we'll take anything with a cord," said Michele Loudenback, environmental and sustainability manager for Norman's Division of Environmental Resilience and Sustainability (DoERS). The e-waste recycling event is held twice a year. At the spring event, the recycling team collected more than 37,000 pounds of electronic waste from more than 650 cars.

Recycling of electronic waste not only allows the recovery of glass and metals like gold, copper and aluminum, it keeps contaminants and heavy metals out of landfill9 a.m.. It also prevents land, air and water pollution, and reduces greenhouse gas emissions created by mining and manufacturing of raw materials.

Additionally, United Electronics Recycling meets the stringent R2v3 standard for ensuring proper handling of electronics and data protection.

Items accepted at the keyboards, televisions, computer monitors, PC speakers, fax machines, laptops and tablet computers, ipods and mp3 players, VCR/DVD/CD players, cell phones, audiovisual equipment, copiers, scanners, printers and more.

For more information, call DoERS at 405-292-9731, or email [email protected].

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