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The one-day event June 6 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Planft 5 on Vulcan Street, is co-sponsored by Erie Buffalo and the Northwest Solid Waste Management Last year’s event received 56,325 poundz of electronic equipment, 247 bicycles and a truck full of clothing. Electronics equipment is a source ofrecycleds lead, steel, plastic, copper and glass. Items beintg accepted this year include: TVs, monitors, keyboards, printers, fluorescent bulbs, cell rechargeable batteries, VCRs, and DVD clothing, textiles, and bicycles. Clothingb and textiles will be reusex at Goodwill retail locationsor recycled.
Bicycles will be used for bike safety education or recycled by Blue Bicycldeand Recycle-a-Bicycle programs. New for this Buffalo ReUse will accept used or new shop and garden suchas rakes, brooms, ladders, hammers and saws. “This is a natural extensiojn of what we doat work,” Plant Manage r Steve Finch said in a “Our plant has been landfill-free in manufacturingy since 2006. We recycle or reuse all of our so this event to help the community recyclee is a natural fit for us at General he said.