The North Central RC&D held their annual electronics collections this spring. There were three satellite collections with electronics brought to either Valentine or O’Neill’s collection. The collections started Friday, April 29th at the Atkinson Community Center parking lot. Volunteers Amanda Sindelar and Charlie Griess manned the station during the collection. – Shawn Alder and his son James from 6 Star Sanitation donated the trailer to capture the items. They also hauled the very full load to O’Neill to connect with the collection there.
On Saturday, April 30th, Lynn Sobotka headed up the O’Neill collection at the O’Neill Community Center. Joel Pierson and his crew arrived from E-Stroyed in Grand Island with a trailer and more manpower. While rain and terrible winds could have hindered both the Atkinson and O’Neill collections, the volunteers hung in there and got the job done.
The weather was much kinder for the last three collections help on Tuesday, May 10th. Bill Barnes and Chuck Kaupp were stationed at Turbine Mart collecting in Springview. Emily Shook, Mayor Lana Arrowsmith and her daughter Livi and George Murdock handled the assembling of now useless electronics in Bassett. The new location for Bassett was at the City Hall parking lot. Shook reported it went for smooth traffic flow. When the collection was done in Springview, Bill and his wife Evelyn hauled the trailer donated by Erik and Amy Johnson to Valentine to meet up at the collection there. The load was then transferred from the Johnson trailer to E-Stroyed’s rig. As for Bassett, the crew of 4 all came with the trailer load to help transfer their cargo over. The trailer for the Bassett collection was donated by Emily Shook and her husband, Alex.
Joel Pierson pulled into the Middle Niobrara NRD parking with his crew of two, Mike and Marty to gather the harvest from Springview and Bassett, plus help with the collecting of Valentine’s event.
Kim Burge, Director for the RC&D and Mike Burge, President of RC&D were on hand to transfer loads as people arrived. Also volunteers Emily Osborne and Birk Burge were high spirited volunteers. The affair went smoothly and the loads were secured and headed to their next stop in Grand Island just a few minutes after 6 pm. By weight, 7,427 pounds were captured for recycling in Valentine and 3,652 in O’Neill.
The next leg of their journey? All items containing data, such as hard drives, SSDs, tapes, disks, & CDs are removed & destroyed onsite.
Everything else is then sorted into different recyclable categories & materials. Electronics contain raw materials such as gold, silver, copper, tin, zinc, palladium, iron, aluminum, cobalt & platinum, but also contain some hazardous materials such as mercury, lead, & aMixed reviews on the weather for the 2022 electronics collections held in 5 locations recently but a solid thumb’s up on the 11,079 pounds of electronics that were collected to be recycled.
The North Central RC&D held their annual electronics collections this spring. There were three satellite collections with electronics brought to either Valentine or O’Neill’s collection. The collections started Friday, April 29th at the Atkinson Community Center parking lot. Volunteers Amanda Sindelar and Charlie Griess manned the station during the collection. – Shawn Alder and his son James from 6 Star Sanitation donated the trailer to capture the items. They also hauled the very full load to O’Neill to connect with the collection there.
On Saturday, April 30th, Lynn Sobotka headed up the O’Neill collection at the O’Neill Community Center. Joel Pierson and his crew arrived from E-Stroyed in Grand Island with a trailer and more manpower. While rain and terrible winds could have hindered both the Atkinson and O’Neill collections, the volunteers hung in there and got the job done.
The weather was much kinder for the last three collections help on Tuesday, May 10th. Bill Barnes and Chuck Kaupp were stationed at Turbine Mart collecting in Springview. Emily Shook, Mayor Lana Arrowsmith and her daughter Livi and George Murdock handled the assembling of now useless electronics in Bassett. The new location for Bassett was at the City Hall parking lot. Shook reported it went for smooth traffic flow. When the collection was done in Springview, Bill and his wife Evelyn hauled the trailer donated by Erik and Amy Johnson to Valentine to meet up at the collection there. The load was then transferred from the Johnson trailer to E-Stroyed’s rig. As for Bassett, the crew of 4 all came with the trailer load to help transfer their cargo over. The trailer for the Bassett collection was donated by Emily Shook and her husband, Alex.
Joel Pierson pulled into the Middle Niobrara NRD parking with his crew of two, Mike and Marty to gather the harvest from Springview and Bassett, plus help with the collecting of Valentine’s event.
Kim Burge, Director for the RC&D and Mike Burge, President of RC&D were on hand to transfer loads as people arrived. Also volunteers Emily Osborne and Birk Burge were high spirited volunteers. The affair went smoothly and the loads were secured and headed to their next stop in Grand Island just a few minutes after 6 pm. By weight, 7,427 pounds were captured for recycling in Valentine and 3,652 in O’Neill.
The next leg of their journey? All items containing data, such as hard drives, SSDs, tapes, disks, & CDs are removed & destroyed onsite.
Everything else is then sorted into different recyclable categories & materials. Electronics contain raw materials such as gold, silver, copper, tin, zinc, palladium, iron, aluminum, cobalt & platinum, but also contain some hazardous materials such as mercury, lead, & arsenic that has to be handled with care & disposed of properly.
Once everything is disassembled, sorted, and packed into different categories, it is sent off to different recycling facilities to be turned into new products. The list of products made from recycled electronics is long & includes bicycles, lawn chairs, car parts, dental appliances, new microchips, subway tiles, ammunition, plumbing, & even the medals used in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Next collections on the calendar for the RC&D- Paper shredding this Fall. If you have recycling questions, contact Kim Burge @ 402-376-5842 or kimhburge@gmail.comrsenic that has to be handled with care & disposed of properly.
Once everything is disassembled, sorted, and packed into different categories, it is sent off to different recycling facilities to be turned into new products. The list of products made from recycled electronics is long & includes bicycles, lawn chairs, car parts, dental appliances, new microchips, subway tiles, ammunition, plumbing, & even the medals used in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Next collections on the calendar for the RC&D- Paper shredding this Fall. If you have recycling questions, contact Kim Burge @ 402-376-5842 or kimhburge@gmail.com