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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
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(Nov. 10, 2009) – Arizona Department of Environmental Quality officials announced
today that an electronics waste recycling event will be held Saturday Nov. 21
from 9 a.m.- 1 p.m. in Globe in the parking lot of Fry’s Food Store, 2115
Highway 60.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>ADEQ and its partners
– Gila County, City of Globe, Town of Miami, Freeport-McMoRan Copper
& Gold and Green-Tech Assets of Mesa -- anticipate collecting tons of
unwanted televisions, computers, monitors, batteries, chargers, cell phones,
VCRs, CD and DVD players, printers, small appliances, fax machines, cables and
cords.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Green-Tech Assets uses
state of the art software to erase all hard drives and will also provide
machinery on site to crush hard drives. Green-Tech Assets also will provide
companies and individuals donating e-waste a certificate of disposal for their
records.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>“Electronics waste
is a pressing problem in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Arizona</st1:State></st1:place>
and throughout the country and the proper handling and disposal of it can
become a great opportunity as well,” said ADEQ Director Benjamin H. Grumbles.
“This is our fourth big e-waste recycling event and we’ll be
sponsoring similar recycling roundups throughout the state in the coming year.
We should always remember in our daily lives the three Rs – reduce, reuse
and recycle.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>“We would like to encourage the community to take advantage of
this event to recycle their old electronics and keep these items out of our
landfill,” said Sharon Winters, manager of Gila County Recycling and
Landfill Management. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The Gila County Waste Tire program also will have bins available at the
event to drop off tires that are less than 4 feet in diameter, with a limit of 10
per licensed driver. Tires with rims are acceptable.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>ADEQ and Green-Tech
Assets sponsored the largest electronics recycling event ever in rural <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Arizona</st1:State></st1:place> in late August
when nearly 30 tons of recyclables were collected in Show Low and disposed of
in an environmentally sensitive manner, rather than having the electronic
devices take up valuable landfill space. ADEQ and Green-Tech also participated
in an electronics recycling event in September in Williams which collected more
than seven tons of recyclables and another in October in Payson which collected
more than five tons.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>“News media interested in additional information on this or any
other topic concerning the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality should
contact the Office of Communications at (602) 771-2215 or via email at <a
href="mailto:ms15@azdeq.gov" title="mailto:ms15@azdeq.gov">ms15@azdeq.gov</a>.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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