Recycle Your Electronics at Whole Foods

This Saturday, Feb. 18, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., in Plymouth Meeting is hosting a . The supermarket will be accepting electronics of all stripes — computers, monitors, printers, air-conditioners and household appliances. In short, as its slogan goes, "anything with a plug."

Whole Foods representative Amy Chidichimo said the Plymouth Meeting store – which is one of several in the Philadelphia region that are participating – will have employees stationed outside to help would-be recyclers unload their cars, but emphasized that the event will be first come, first served.

"Once all of our collection bins are full for the day we have to stop. So I would encourage people to get there early," she said. "The earlier the better."

Chidichimo added that this is the third year Whole Foods has hosted such an event, the last two of which it has done in partnership with South Philadelphia recycling firm eForce Compliance.

"They have a really great environmental policy," she said.

Chidichimo explained that eForce re-purposes many of the materials it collects, has a zero landfill policy, does all of its processing domestically and is exceedingly transparent.

"They also make sure to destroy any sensitive data [on computers]," she added in response to concerns about identity theft.