Lake Saint Louis drop-off electronics recycling event set for Oct. 15

The city of Lake Saint Louis is planning an electronics and appliance drop-off recycling event for households and businesses from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m., Oct. 15, at The Meadows, by the fountain.

Initiated two years ago by the city’s Green Environmental Advisory Committee, this year’s recycling event will again be managed by Web Innovations & Technology Services (WITS), Missouri’s largest not-for-profit recycling agency.  WITS either reconditions dropped-off items for reuse in the greaterSt. Louisarea or takes them apart for recycling.

Ed Young, chairperson of the advisory committee, said that he is “delighted to work with an agency that advertises that no donated item will end up in a landfill.”

Possible items for recycling include computers, monitors, other computer hardware including cables, office/business equipment and machinery, telecommunications equipment including phones and clocks, televisions, VCRs, stereos, cameras, other audio/video equipment, data storage devices including CDs and VHS tapes, home electronics, blenders, toasters, irons, washing machines and dryers, dishwashers, furnaces, hot water heaters, home medical equipment, industrial machinery, lawn mowers, tillers, tools, air conditioners, refrigerators, humidifiers, old motors, transformers, electrical equipment, power supplies, and car batteries.

There is a $5 suggested donation for each computer monitor and laptop, television, large appliance, and all Freon-containing devices. All other items may be dropped off free of charge. All payments and donations of reusable items may be tax deductible as WITS is a not-for-profit agency.

Unacceptable items for this recycling event include tires, wood furniture, other wood products, paint and paint cans, and household and industrial chemicals.

“This recycling event provides Lake Saint Louis residents and business owners with a low cost opportunity to clean out their house or building of unwanted items in an environmentally-responsible fashion,” said Lake Saint Louis Director of Community Development Steve Schertel.

For more information, visit the Lake Saint Louis Web site at http://www.lakesaintlouis.com or the WITS Web site at http://www.witsinc.org or call WITS at 314-382-1650.