Press release: TechBirmingham Ecycling Day a Huge Success
More than 17,000 e-waste items collected and approximately 76 tons of electronics waste diverted from Alabama`s landfills in Birmingham region`s first coordinated electronics recycling effort
Release Date: 2006-04-24 13:22:54
Two Girl Scout troops from Helena took time off last week from selling their cookies to help save the earth. They joined more than 200 volunteers including members of Birmingham’s technology community and several dozen college students to help collect old electronic equipment for TechBirmingham Ecycling Day on April 22. These girls and their troop leaders staffed one of the 15 collection sites across the Birmingham, Alabama region. Many of the volunteers gathered at the McWane Center on Wednesday night for a thank you reception to hear the preliminary collection numbers of computers, monitors, keyboards, printers, and cell phones.
The numbers announced included:
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Languages: Only English variant
Keywords: computers, mcwane center, earth day, volunteers, community, electronic equipment, cell phones, wednesday night, girl scout troops, keyboards, printers, monitors, save the earth, help, collection numbers, recipient organization, alabama region
Categories: Technology: Telecommunications
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