Reed Needs Your Electronic Junk

Do you have an old computer that you can't sell on ebay becaue it's too old? Do you have a printer or FAX machine that even the Goodwill stores won't take? Do you have a bunch of wires and plugs for things you don't even know that they plug into? 

Well, bring your E-waste to l's park on Friday, Saturday or Sunday this week and you'll help the school out.

According to the recycling center: "E-waste is an informal yet popular name for electronic products nearing the end of their "useful life." Computers, TVs, VCRs, stereos, copiers and fax machines are common electronic products. Many of these products can be reused, refurbished or recycled."

Unfortunately, electronic discards is one of the fastest growing segments of our nation's waste stream. This definition includes used electronics which are destined for reuse, resale, salvage, recycling, or disposal. Others define the re-usables (working and repairable electronics) and secondary scrap, steel, plastic to be "commodities", and reserve the term "waste" for residue or material which was represented as working or repairable but which is dumped or disposed or discarded by the buyer rather than recycled, including residue from reuse and recycling operations.

You can't just throw this stuff away. The United States Environmental Protection Agency includes discarded CRT monitors in its category of "hazardous household waste"but considers CRTs set aside for testing to be commodities if they are not discarded, speculatively accumulated, or left unprotected from weather and other damage. In the United States, an estimated 70% of heavy metals in landfills comes from discarded electronics.

The PTSA is also looking for goods of all kinds:

This event is sponsored by Goodwill. We can earn thousands just by collecting. Goodwill pays for our donations, so the more items we donate, the more money we raise for our school!  They create jobs and are certified E-Waste recyclers here in the USA! Please tell your friends and neighbors. All donations are tax deductible.

*Students: Please bring at least 2 shopping bags full of used clothing or goods.
*Parents: Please sign-up to volunteer inside the Parent Center. We need help sorting and collecting goods. And please help spread the word!

What to Donate:
All Household Items: Clothing • Toys • Sports Equipment • Books • Furniture •
Tools • Jewelry • Kitchenware • Decorative Items • etc.
All Electronics (working or not – anything with a cord): Office Equipment •
Small Appliances • Computer Equipment
(No Mattresses or Children transport, No Gas Powered tools, No large appliances or Exercise Equipment, No Car Parts)

Friday and Saturday, Nov. 18 and 19 from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday Nov. 20 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. drop-off at Walter Reed’s Schall Park (entrance on Colfax Ave., approximately 150 yards north of Moorpark).

If you would like to volunteer to collect this material, please fill out this form (click here.)