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Hard-to-Recycle event is scheduled for Saturday at BRCC

By Lightning Reports, Published: September 12, 2022

Henderson County Solid Waste is partnering with Asheville GreenWorks to bring a Hard-to-Recycle event to the Patton parking lot of Blue Ridge Community College 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17.

Residents may drop off the packaging and food-grade Styrofoam (no packing peanuts), books, shredded paper, electronics, batteries, laptops, writing instruments (pens/mechanical pencils, glue sticks, watercolors, paint sets), razors and packaging; empty toothpaste tubes, toothbrushes and packaging, empty squeezable food pouches, Brita filters, animal sanctuary items, fencing materials, and bikes. TVs and CRT monitors are $10 each.Wooden console televisions are not accepted. The full list of accepted items can be found at www.hcrecycles.org.

Items not accepted include packing peanuts, paint, stains, sealers, light bulbs of all kinds, cooking or motor oils, hard plastics, vinyl, PVC, VHS/cassette tapes, plate glass, foam, wooden items or cement.

Henderson County and GreenWorks are seeking volunteers to help with the event. Please sign up here! (https://hard2recycle.org/volunteer/)

Miss the event? Some of these items are accepted at the Transfer Station and Convenience Center. Please visit the website hcrecycles.org or contact Henderson County Environmental Programs at (828) 694-6524 for more information.