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2 NEWS
NORTH TEXAS DAILY - NTDAILY.COM
Event aims to recycle scrap metal
Steven James
Senior Staff Writer
A nyone who needs to recycle
/\ old electronics in an environ-
i Amentally-sound and legal way
will get their chance at the Health
Science Center Office of Sustainabil-
ity’s E-Waste Recycle event.
The event will take place this
Thursday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the
center in Fort Worth at the intersec-
tion of Bunting and Haskell Avenues.
The last event, held in 2013, brought
in nearly 2.5 tons of recyclable waste.
Sustainability coordinator Sandy
Bauman said the point of holding
the recycling event is to keep harm-
ful substances, such as heavy met-
als, out of landfills. Bauman said the
metals found in certain electronics
like smartphones, televisions and
tablets can be recycled and used
again in other electronics.
According to Texas Campaign for
the Environment, Texas currently has
12 landfills measuring over 200 feet
tall.
Thursday’s event is held in part-
nership with ECS Refining, an elec-
tronics recycling company founded
in 1980 that focuses on scrap and
consumer products. The HSC will
POSITION:
Student Account Executive
to sell advertising
work with the ECS factory in Mes-
quite, Texas.
Bauman said people who bring
electronics to recycle will be entered
into a contest for a Kindle Fire tablet.
She also said products with Freon,
toxic gases and liquids that are typi-
cally used in aerosol and refrigerants
such as air conditioners, will not be
accepted.
Bauman said the center gets 5
cents back per pound for every item
donated.
“There is zero-waste recycling so
nothing goes to the landfill,” Bauman
said. “A lot of these things we use
have precious metals in them. That’s
why we get money back, because
these things are valuable.”
Bauman said similar events are
held throughout the year in Denton,
Arlington, Grapevine, Austin and Cor-
pus Christi.
After the electronics are put onto
the truck, the truck goes to ECS Re-
fining.
“We want to make sure that elec-
tronics are handled properly,” re-
gional municipal services manager
Cheri Reynolds Howard said. “Keep-
ing it out of the landfill saves natural
resources.”
Reynolds Howard said electronics
are put through a shredder once they
come to a factory to protect personal
information.
She said the electronics need to
stay in the United States and not go
overseas.
“I’m sure people have seen news
commercials of children in third
world countries playing with elec-
tronics,” she said.
Reynolds Howard said there are
two types of certification programs
for electronics recycling companies.
One is the Responsible Recycling
Practices, or R2, certification, and the
e-Stewards standards certification.
According to the Environmental
Protection Agency website, compa-
nies with the certifications are sup-
posed to increase quality and acces-
sibility of reusable materials to people
who need them, reduce health and
environmental impacts from inap-
propriate recycling techniques and
conserve natural resources.
Social work sophomore Faith
Moore said she thinks events like
E-Waste help maintain the environ-
ment.
“It’s so easy to just recycle your
stuff,” Moore said. “Even if your elec-
tronics work, you can just give them
to someone else.”
A pile of broken cellphones lay inside a recycling container. Photo courtesy of
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COVER PHOTOS
Top: Mechanical and energy engineering fresh-
man William Jackson throws the Frisbee downfield
while guarded by a Southern Methodist University
defender. Photo courtesy of Steven Byars.
Bottom left: Theater senior Kana Shimonaka
performs a traditional Japanese dance called Bon-
odori during last year's Japanese Culture Fest.
Photo courtesy of club president Cory Taylor.
Bottom middle: Paint brushes sit next to bottles
of paint inside Voertman's. These and other sup-
plies will be used during studio art summer classes.
Photo by Erica Wieting - Staff Photographer
Bottom right: Pansies adorn the soil in front of the
University of North Texas sign outside of Bruce Hall.
Photo by Matthew Payne - Staff Writer
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