The
Township of Montville’s Free Paper Shredding and Electronics Recycling Event
has been scheduled for Saturday, March
25, 2017, 9am to noon, at the Town Hall Parking Lot. The event is
rain or shine, and is open to all Montville Township residents and businesses.
Please see the
recycling guidelines below:
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- Paper
Shredding Guidelines
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All
types of paper such as financial and legal documents, receipts, and tax and
medical records are acceptable. Papers with staples, paper clips, and
small butterfly clips are acceptable. Spiral notebooks, 3-ring binders,
hard metal, and plastic are not acceptable. If documents are stored in
plastic bags and cartons, the contents will be recycled but the plastic bags
and cartons will be returned.
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- Electronics
Recycling Guidelines
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Acceptable
items include: computers (desktops, laptops, tablets), servers, printers,
ink/toner cartridges, computer peripherals (mice, keyboards, speakers, webcams,
microphones, etc.), LED/LCD monitors, LED/LCD plasma televisions, microwaves,
toaster ovens, copy machines, fax machines, scanners, typewriters, telephones
and answering machines, smart phones/cell phones/pagers/PDAs/chargers, UPS
units, battery backups, GPS units, audio equipment (receivers, amplifiers,
radios, boom boxes, CD players, ipods, MP3 players, Pro Audio), video equipment
(blu-ray players, DVD players, soundboards, projectors), network equipment
(modems, switches, hubs, routers), telecommunication equipment, medical
equipment, laboratory equipment, electrical & testing equipment, circuit
boards (all grades), cables, wires, power cords, power strips, rechargeable dry
cell batteries (nickel cadmium - NiCad, nickel metal hydride - NIMH, Lithium
Ion, Li-Ion), sealed lead-acid batteries, and ballasts (non-PCB).
Non-Acceptable
materials include: alkaline batteries, mercury-containing devices (thermostats,
medical devices, thermometers), scavenged CRTs (cathode ray tube) TVs &
monitors (containing broken glass or broken housing), household hazardous
waste, materials containing liquids, radioactive materials, PCB containing
materials, CDs, DVDs, VHS tapes, cassette tapes, and light bulbs (LED, CFL,
incandescent, etc.).