Computer Recycling
District residents and businesses can now recycle microcomputer systems including CPU, monitor, printer, keyboard and cables for a fee of $10.00. The fee for non-District residents and businesses is $15.00 per system. The price for monitors, CPUs or printers alone is $7.50. Computer equipment will be accepted at the Gleason Road transfer station on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

System components will be aggregated and then delivered to Vermont RetroWorks in Middlebury for refurbishment, cannibalization or safe disposal.

The need for an environmentally sound electronics disposal management system grows daily. Last year Americans threw away 20 million personal computers. By 2007, that number is expected to grow to 61 million.

The average monitor contains between four and ten pounds of lead, and a CPU typically contains lead, cadmium and a host of other exotic metals. Many of these substances can be extracted and re-used; others require specialized disposal to prevent air or groundwater pollution. And some components – and a small number of systems – can be rehabilitated and reused, avoiding the disposal dilemma altogether, at least for a while.

The following is a list of acceptable electronic equipment: