eWaste Recycling Saves Our Enviornment! Do YOUR Part!

In our ongoing effort to keep hazardous waste out of Georgia's landfills, Keep Atlanta Beautiful is continuing it's partnership with Atlanta Public Schools and Midtown Neighbors' Association to provide electronics recycling drop-off at Grady High School every third Saturday of the month. Recently joining in this partnership is Urban eLife, a company that takes corporate America's electronic waste and creates "Green Jobs."

According to a recent report from the Computer Equipment Disposal and Recycling Council, there are at least 4.4 million PCs and 8 million TVs in the 3 million households in the Georgia. With the rapid pace of new technology and TV stations converting to digital broadcast, the accumulation of obsolete electronics is becoming an increasing problem. Currently, Georgia law does not ban landfill disposal of e-scrap coming from residential sources, although some landfills will not accept them. The improper disposal of e-scrap, which contains such toxic substances as lead and mercury, may have serious ramifications on public health and the health of our environment.

To date, we have recycled more than 70,000 pounds of electronics! Help us keep Atlanta clean and green by bringing your e-scrap to Grady High School this Saturday and EVERY third Saturday of the month.

For more details or visit www.KeepAtlantaBeautiful.org

I serve on the Board of Directors for Midtown Neighbors' Association and I'm proud we are a part of this program to help keep this waste from our landfills. Also remember, items such as cell phones can be given to organizations that refurbish them and give to single mothers and others to have for emergencies.

We may only be on this plant for a short time, but there are generations to follow us that we should remember what they will have to deal with!