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public library will accept small Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition. You Can Recycle That Too?
amounts of grocery bags because Check their website for a complete Other items that Household Hazard-

they give them to patrons who use list of accepted electronics. ous Waste and Electronics Recycling
the bags to carry library books they accept include pet supplies, fluores-
borrow. Batteries cent light bulbs and household clean-
Batteries can be recycled too! Alka- ing products. For a complete list of
Wire Hangers line batteries (e.g. AAA, C, 9v) can acceptable items, check out their
Covanta accepts wire clothes hangers be thrown away in regular trash. page on the City of Alexandria’s
as well, or you can take them to your However, button-shaped batteries website.
local dry cleaner or thrift store. Recy- and rechargeable batteries can go to
cling wire hangers keeps workers the Household Hazardous Waste and What Can’t Be Recycled?
safe. Visit Covanta’s page to find Electronics Recycling Site on 3224 There are a few things that cannot be
out what else they accept. Colvin Street on Saturdays and Mon- recycled, however. Paper cups, polit-
days from 7:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. ical signs (sandwich-board), wax
Electronics cooking paper, wax-coated card-
Got a few broken electronics hanging Non-Food and Beverage Metal board, pizza delivery boxes, plastic-
around? The Household Hazardous Containers coated paper, ceramic items,
Waste and Electronics Recycling Site Non-food and beverage metal con- Styrofoam, packing peanuts and clam
takes those too! It accepts unusable tainers (i.e. metal blinds, pots and shell plastic containers (e.g. for fruit
televisions, computers and other pans, etc.) and helium tanks that hold or salad). These are all considered
electronics too if you don’t want to 20 gallons or less can be recycled by unrecyclable and must be thrown
set them out in the Loading Dock for taking them to the Covanta Waste to away.
trash. The maximum acceptable Energy Facility located at 5301 Ei-
weight is 75 lbs. By properly dispos- senhower Ave. You may drop off Just taking a few minutes to rinse and
ing of electronics alone - which only recyclable items at no cost once a properly dispose of trash and ac-
make up 2% of total trash by volume week during the hours of 6 a.m. – ceptable items can put the notion of
- electronic waste is reduced and you 5:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays dirty recycling in the dust as well as
can lower up to 70% of heavy metals and 6 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. on Saturdays. make the jobs of our Environmental
out of landfills says the nonprofit Services staff just a little easier.

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