Sunday, May 13, 2012

GM Tonawanda hosting recycling event - Business First of Buffalo:

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The one-day event June 6 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Plantr 5 on Vulcan Street, is co-sponsored by Erie Buffalo and the Northwest Solid WasteManagement Board. Last year’e event received 56,325 pounds of electronic 247 bicycles and a truck full of Electronics equipment is a source ofrecycled lead, steel, copper and glass. Items being accepted this year include: TVs, monitors, keyboards, printers, fluorescen t bulbs, cell phones, rechargeable batteries, VCRs, and DVD clothing, textiles, and bicycles. Clothinhg and textiles will be reusedc at Goodwill retail locationsor recycled. Bicycles will be used for bike safety education or recycled by Blue Bicyclrand Recycle-a-Bicycle programs.
New for this Buffalo ReUse will accept used ornew hand, shop and garde n tools, such as rakes, brooms, wheelbarrows, hammers and saws. “This is a natural extensiobn of what we doat work,” Plant Manager Steve Finch said in a “Our plant has been landfill-fre in manufacturing since 2006. We recycle or reuse all of our waste, so this evenyt to help the community recycle is a naturalk fit for us at General he said.

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