Do you have an old computer, monitor, TV set or cell phone you no longer want? How about a printer, microwave or ink toner cartridge? The Environmental Club of Franklin High School will gladly take such stuff from you and have it appropriately recycled.
All of this week is E-Waste Collection Day at Franklin (from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.) at the school’s baseball field. On Saturday, too, the school’s Environmental Club students will be on hand from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to collect all manner of unwanted electronic items.
“People can just drive through with their old computers, TVs, microwaves, batteries,” said Karla Johnson, the club’s co-founder and a Spanish teacher at Franklin. “They don’t even have to get out of their cars—we’ll take the stuff out for them and get it recycled.”
Johnson said the school has an arrangement with a private company that will recycle the e-waste in a responsible manner—that is, she acknowledged, the waste won’t end up as a toxic dump somewhere in China or India.
E-Waste Collection, Franklin High School Baseball Field, 333 S. Beaudry Ave., Saturday, May 25, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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