Happening in parts of Allegheny county too.
Go to a nearby Staples, get a shopping cart, load it up and go inside the store. They’ll ask you to fill out a short form, itemizing the stuff if you want a receipt. Otherwise, you just sign the form and they’ll fill it out and dispose of the hardware.
I’ve heard the only electronics item that is profitable to recycle are computers. The rare earth elements used to make the magnets in the hard drives are in high demand. The rest of the electronics are full of mercury, cadmium, etc, that are expensive to recycle and with little demand.
The last time I did it, there were way more than 50 cars in line, and then when I finally got to the drop off point, one of the idiot workers let a cart loose and it put a nice dent in the side of my car. Never again.
Same in Adams County. The local recycling center put up a big sign telling people that electronics were no longer accepted there and to blame the state legislature for it.
A well-intentioned law, but once again, nobody thought out the practical aspects of just WHERE this stuff would be taken or WHO would recycle it.
What I am seeing here is electronic junk being dumped over hillsides and left in parking lots or in the yards of vacant houses.
Quinn’s First Law: Liberalism always generates the EXACT OPPOSITE of it’s stated intent.