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Originally posted on Bakotopia Thu May 8, 2008 15:10:08 PDT
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0 responses Start: May 17, 2008
End: May 17, 2008
Time: 8:00am
Price: FREE
Contact: Jeannie Burton | jburton@kerncountyfair.com | 661.833.4917
Location: 1142 South P. Street, BAKERSFIELD, CA 93307

 The Kern County Fair will hold a free electronic waste collection on Saturday May 17^th from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm.  Partnering with Fresno-based Electronic Recyclers, the event will provide local residents an opportunity to safely unload their old computers, VCRs, printers, television sets, stereos and other out-dated, unusable or unwanted electronic items for proper recycling. 

It is illegal to simply throw an unwanted television or computer monitor in the trash in the state of California.  Electronic items contain toxic elements like lead and mercury that are environmentally hazardous when they are dumped into landfills.  By law, such products must now be recycled properly and in ways that won’t harm the environment

The electronics collected will be trucked away and recycled by Electronic Recyclers International, the largest recycler of electronic waste in California, at their state of the art facility in Fresno.

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