www.GreenCoalition-SJV.org

Background

The Green Coalition of San Jacinto Valley hosted electronic waste (e-waste) events in 2009 and 2010. From those events, we collected over 100,000 pounds of electronic waste from valley residents!
E-waste is comprised of TVs computers, monitors, radios, cell phones, and almost anything that might have an electronic component or has an electrical cord.
As the rate of electronic products grow and as awareness of technology’s harmful impacts on the environment spreads, e-waste is becoming one of the America’s most critical environmental issues.
Here in the valley, there is a growing trend of residents who dispose their electronics in the regular trash bins or by simply leaving it by the curb. Unfortunately, these disposal methods are haphazard today.
Due to the e-waste toxic content, improper disposal can lead to leaks of more than 100 chemicals that are harmful to our health and environment. Moreover, carelessly disposing e-waste by leaving it by the curbside or sidewalks trashes our beautiful valley.
To further proper disposal, we also selected to partner with a recycler who can actually recycle most of the e-waste material to local manufacturers compared The service also protects personal security by thoroughly destroying discarded hard drives and other data storage devices which are frequently used by criminals to obtain banking information, phone numbers, and private databases. Many computer users mistakenly believe that such data is permanently erased from their hard drives when they reformat or erase their computer files. Actually such information can be easily recovered. The e-waste program eliminates that possibility by physically destroying hard drives and other data storage devices making them unreadable.

E-Waste Calendar

Check this website for the next E-waste scheduled for the second quarter of 2011 and in the fall.