eScrap Collection Totals

by Carole Yeend

February 21, 2009 was our last eScrap event where we collected 13,617 pounds of electronics for recycling.  Many of you ask where we take them.  This shipment (transportation courtesy of Fraley & Schilling Trucking, Inc) went to Recycle Force, LLC at 754 North Sherman Drive in Indianapolis.  This group takes apart the items completely and recycles the material.  The CRT tubes and television tubes are shipped to Arkansas to be incinerated in a special facility.  This is a large part of the cost of recycling responsibly so these tubes are not packed in a shipping container and sent to China. 

Phones calls have been coming in two or three times a week asking when the next collection will be held.  No date has been set yet.  My best guess is sometime in mid-to-late September.  The lack of storage space prevents us from accepting them at our Tox-Away Center day (the first Saturday of each month). 

P. S.  Click on the link to Recycle Force, LLC to learn more about this interesting group.  The electronics you add to our collections helps these workers gain a new life for themselves.