Look for our big green trailer, where Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority will be collecting computer-related items for recycling. When you drop off your e-recycling, LCSWMA will give you a $5 food voucher, good for use with specified food vendors during GGAF.

E-recycling items accepted on site include desk and laptop computers (includes CPUs, monitors, keyboards, and desktop printers). These items will be recycled through AERC (Advanced Environmental Recycling Center), a Pennsylvania company with its corporate headquarters in Allentown. AERC has a PA Department of Environmental Protection General Permit WMGR081 for processing and beneficial use of electronic equipment and components by sorting, disassembling or mechanical processing.

Click here to learn more about AERC.

Reduce – Maintain and keep equipment as long as possible

• Evaluate, compare and select desktop computers, notebooks and monitors based on their environmental attributes o Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (http://www.epeat.net/) from the Green Electronics Council
• A typical computer’s lifespan is 2-3 years, but can be extended by 1-2 years with some upgrading.
• Buy a good monitor; it can last 6-7 years or more. Keep it for use with your next computer.
• Lease a computer so you can trade it in at the end of the lease.
• Always use a surge protector power strip will all electronic equipment.

Reuse – A computer of recent vintage can often be refurbished and reused

• Check the list of Pennsylvania Electronic Recyclers
• Donate the computer for reuse

Recycle – Deliver the computer to a community Electronics Collection Program