RECYCLING ELECTRONICS
E-cycling Program
The Authority offers an ongoing Electronics Recycling Program held the third Saturday of every month from 9AM to 1PM at the Authority's Yard Waste Transfer Facility located off of Flour mill Road in Manchester Township. Residents, businesses, non-profits and institutions are eligible to participate and may bring unlimited quantities of electronic devices. There is no fee to participate. In addition to the Authority’s E-cycling program, residents may also deliver a variety of electronic devices to Best Buy’s York store located at 2865 Concord Road, York, PA 17402. There is no fee.
York County municipalities are invited to piggyback onto this program by conducting satellite collections. To date, Penn and Fairview Townships are opening their collection sites to all York County residents and businesses.
If your municipality is not listed, please call your municipality directly to see if they are participating.
Location: The Authority's Yard Waste Transfer Site located on Flour Mill Road in Manchester Township. Follow signage from Blackbridge Road.
There is no fee to participate in the program. Residents, businesses etc. are responsible for removal of any personal data contained on electronic devices and computer hard drives.
E-cycling Accepted Items
Items accepted include 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/telephone equipment, televisions, and VCR’s.
Do Not Bring
Electric equipment (such as toasters, hair dryers, wall clocks, or electric razors) OR construction demolition, furniture, appliances (such as vacuum cleaners), white goods, or household hazardous waste.
Why is Electronic Waste a Potential Problem?
Electronic equipment contains lead, mercury, cadmium and chromium which have environmental consequences when disposed of improperly. One computer can contain up to as much as eight pounds of lead.
What Happens to the Electronics I Bring to the Event?
The Authority hires an outside vendor specializing in electronics recycling to manage the materials collected during this event. The vendor 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.
How Can I Participate?
All York County homeowners or residential tenants as well as businesses, non-profits and institutions are 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.
There is no fee to participate in the program, the Authority provides this service to York County residents and businesses as part of our integrated waste management system and a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
MUNICIPAL PROGRAMS
Fairview Township
All York County residents and businesses are welcome to participate. Electronics recycling conducted every other Saturday at the Fairview Township Recycling Center located at 100 Sewered Road, New Cumberland, PA 17070. Call 717-901-5200 for more info.
Penn Township
All York County residents and businesses are welcome to participate. Electronics recycling conducted every Saturday at the Penn Township Recycling Drop-off Center located at Heights Ave. (next to the township building) in Hanover, PA 17331. Call 632-7366 for more info.
York Township
Open to York Township residents only. Electronics accepted the third Saturday of the months of February, May, August and November from 7AM to 11:30AM. Call 741-3861 for more info.
Hopewell Township
Open to Hopewell Township residents only. Call 993-2027 for more info.
Lower Windsor Township
Open to Lower Windsor Township residents only. Call 244-6813 for more info.
Warrington Township
Open to Warrington Township residents only. Call 432-9082 for more info.
Red Lion Borough
Open to Red Lion Borough Township residents only. Call 244-3475 for more info.
For more information, call the Authority at 717-845-1066
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