TAKE THE E-CYCLE CHALLENGE APRIL 5 

If your house has become a haven for outdated electronics, here’s your chance to do some spring cleaning.  The York County Solid Waste Authority will conduct an electronics recycling event called the “E-cycling Challenge”.  The event will be held on Saturday, April 5th from 9 AM to 2 PM at the Authority’s Management Center parking lot located at 2700 Blackbridge Road, Manchester Township.  

All York County homeowners or residential tenants are eligible to participate in this program. Businesses and other non-profit entities are NOT eligible to participate in this program.  In addition, homeowners and residential tenants who reside in a municipality that has contractually agreed to deliver waste only to the York County Resource Recovery Center may also participate. Those municipalities include Swatara Township , Highspire Borough, and McSherrystown Borough.  In addition to the Authority’s main collection site on Blackbridge Road , twelve other municipalities are conducting satellite programs that piggyback onto the Authority’s event. Those municipalities include the City of York , Dallastown, Dillsburg, Jefferson and Red Lion Boroughs and Fairview , Lower Windsor, Penn, Shrewsbury , Warrington , Windsor and York Townships . Residents of those municipalities are asked to call their municipal office directly for collection locations and times.  

All York County residents can bring electronic equipment (outdated, broken, or just plain ugly) to the event.  Businesses and other non-profit entities are NOT eligible to participate in this program.  Please DO NOT bring electric equipment (such as toasters, hair dryers, wall clocks, or electric razors), OR construction demolition, furniture, appliances, white goods, or household hazardous waste.   

There is no fee to residents to participate in the program.  The program is made possible by funding generated from tipping fees (cost for disposal of waste) collected at the York County Resource Recovery Center and a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.  

Residents may bring up to three of each type of electronic equipment accepted (i.e.: three computers, and three printers, and three cassette players, etc.).  Electronic equipment accepted in this program includes answering machines, compact disc players, electric typewriters, fax machines, hard drives, laptops, mobile phones, modems, microwave ovens, pagers, personal computers (CPU, monitors, keyboards, mouse, and peripherals), printers, printed circuit boards, radios, remote controls, stereos, tape players, telephones and telephone equipment, televisions, and VCR’s.  Residents are responsible for removal of any personal data contained on electronic devices and computer hard drives.   

Notes Gregg Pearson, the Authority’s E-cycling Program coordinator, “We’re challenging people to e-cycle because it’s important to divert electronic equipment from the waste stream.   Heavy metals such as lead and mercury that are used in many electronic products have environmental consequences.”  One computer can contain up to as much as eight pounds of lead.   

The Authority has hired Eco International to manage the materials collected during this event.  Eco International will harvest useable parts (circuit boards, power supplies, wood, plastic, and CRT glass); valuable metals (gold, copper, steel, aluminum); and potentially harmful components (lead, mercury and cadmium) and recycle them.  Virtually all but one percent of the materials are recycled into new products.  

This is the 7th year the Authority has hosted the E-cycle Challenge.  In 2007, more than 83 tons of electronics were recycled through this program.