It was a flurry of recycling activity at the Montague Farmer's Market Saturday. A crew of volunteers helped unload and sort electronics from a boatload of cars and trailers. There were more drop-offs than ever before, said the White Lake Area Climate Action Council. The organization also collected a good amount of monetary donations to put toward WLACAC's programming.
WLACAC estimated that it collected: 50 laptops; 36 tablets; 80 cell phones; 200 pounds of batteries; 40 yard and hand tool batteries; four buckets of light bulbs; three buckets of ink cartridges; five pallet boxes monitors; four small house appliances; one miscellaneous cords/keyboards/mice; two pallet boxes of printers; a half a pallet box of computer towers; and a full-size printer.
The WLACAC also acknowledged that a few volunteers took on the extra task of recycling some items because Goodwill doesn't offer those services. This means individual volunteers took the batteries to Padnos, the light bulbs to a hardware store, and the ink cartridges to mail-in for recycling.
With the growing success of the drop off, the WLACAC is interested in finding local re-purposing streams for items. On Saturday, the Montague Commoners debuted a take-apart station to find useful items inside computer towers, like magnets. Clubs, organizations or businesses that might like to partner with the WLACAC are encouraged to contact the organization.
