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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Wednesday, August 20, 2008

LIHU'E
Home, office electronics accepted for recycling

The Kaua'i County Recycling Office will hold an electronics recycling event Friday for businesses and Saturday for households.

Items accepted at the Vidinha Stadium parking lot, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day, include computers, servers, copiers, monitors, hubs, fax machines, cell phones, scanners, keyboards, CD-ROM and DVD drives, stereo components, laptops, telephones, backup batteries, printers, typewriters, VCR and DVD players, plasma screens, stereos, speakers, camcorders, electrical gaming units, cameras, radios, GPS systems and overhead projectors

Not accepted: Styrofoam, microwaves, electronics in wood cabinets, appliances, cardboard and batteries not integral to computer systems.

Materials collected will be recycled at Total Reclaim in Seattle, a release from the recycling office said. Data storage media will be cleaned or destroyed in a manner acceptable in the industry. Donors may remove data prior to dropoff by keeping the hard drive, destroying the hard drive, or erasing the hard drive.

For more information, contact the county recycling office at 241-4841.