E-Recycling & Document Shredding for Wilkes-Barre City Residents ONLY

Name: E-Recycling & Document Shredding for Wilkes-Barre City Residents ONLY
Start: 2024-10-07T14:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-07T17:30:00-04:00
Location: Wilkes-Barre City DPW Headquarters

Schedule

Mon Oct 07 2024 at 02:30 pm to 05:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Wilkes-Barre City DPW Headquarters | Wilkes Barre, PA

Mayor George C. Brown is pleased to announce a free, drive-through, electronics recycling and document shredding event for city residents this October. The city has partnered with Responsible Recycling Solutions (RSS) for Electronics Recycling and with Paper Eaters Document Destruction Service for document shredding.
The event will be held on Monday, October 7th from 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM and Thursday, October 10th from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM, at the Wilkes-Barre Public Works Facility, 3 Conyngham Ave., Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711. The event is only for City of Wilkes-Barre residents, who must present proof of residency (i.e. Driver’s License). Items will not be collected from businesses. It is a non-contact event and residents must stay in their car. Please visit www.wilkes-barre.city/specialcollections or call 570.208.4152 for more information.
E-RECYCLING
Electronics accepted for FREE are as follows:
• Desktop & Laptop Computers
• DVD Players & VCR’s
• Keyboards & Mice
• Gaming Systems
• Printers/Fax Machines
• String Christmas Lights
• Cables & Cords
• Small Appliances
• Cell Phone & Laptop Batteries
• Metal Items
• Calculators & Adding Machines
• Exercise Equipment-Bikes/Treadmills
• UPS Battery Backups
• Car Batteries (sealed lead acid)
• Toner & Ink Cartridges
• Bed Frames & Rain spouting
• Audio Visual Equipment
• Telephones & Cell Phones*
*Please Remove Cell Phone Batteries
• Filing Cabinets
• Lawn Mowers
• Paper Shredders

Additional Items that can be recycled with a fee, paid via Cash or Checks ONLY. Please Make Checks Payable to Responsible Recycling Services or RRS:

• Computer Monitors - $20.00
• Floor Copiers - $20.00
• Console Stereos (in cabinet) - $35.00
• Televisions under 42” (CRT or Flat Screen)- $40.00
• TVs over 42”-$58.00 (Flat Screen, in a wooden cabinet projection type, TV Tube only or broken screen)

Offsite Hard Drive destruction services are $10 per drive and include a Certificate of Destruction. Household batteries, light bulbs, CDs, DVDs, VHS Tapes and Styrofoam are NOT accepted.

DOCUMENT SHREDDING
Residents can have up to 3 boxes of their private documents properly destroyed at no cost. A 3-box limit, per car, will be strictly enforced.
ACCEPTED ITEMS:
Documents that contain personal or private information. Examples include:

• Bank statements
• Outdated medical records
• Pay stubs
• Old bills or receipts
• Credit card offers
• Tax returns older than seven years

PROHIBITED ITEMS:

• Newspapers
• Binders of any type: 3-ring, plastic, spiral, metal
• Plastic document covers
• Hanging file folders with metal support bars
• Metal binder clips
• Books, either hardback or paperback
• Credit Cards
• Magazines, catalogues, or newspapers
• Film or photographs
• Shredded paper
Residents are asked to check papers for foreign objects that may cause damage to the vendor’s shredding equipment. Examples include rocks, batteries, silverware, computer cables, clothes, and other miscellaneous items. Boxes containing debris will not be accepted. Junk mail does not need to be shredded and should be placed in household recycling bins to be recycled.