earth day electronics recycling drive 2024 details and faqs
Do you have old unwanted or nonworking electronics at your home or office? Or piles of old paper cluttering your space?
Load up your car and drive them over to the Integrated Building Systems office on April 19, 2024, for our 12th annual Earth Day Electronics Recycling Drive! This community event will be held from 8 am to 2 pm at 950 Michigan Avenue, Columbus, OH 43215.
Keep our environment clean
This event started with Integrated Building Systems clients asking about the best way to dispose of their old electronics.
Hazardous materials in e-waste, like lead and mercury, can leach out of landfills into groundwater. The batteries in electronic products also contain heavy metals that can leak into groundwater supplies once the batteries erode.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets regulations for how electronics can be responsibly recycled to avoid toxic waste. Columbus Micro Systems, the electronics recycler for this event, meets and exceeds these regulations.
Recycling your unwanted or nonworking electronics at our event and join Integrated Building Systems’ effort to keep our environment clean.
How the event works
Recycle at this event from the comfort of your car!
Collect your items from work or home, then drive them over for curbside drop-off. Drive north on Michigan Avenue toward First Avenue and follow the signs and flags. Stay in your car, and our team members will unload your vehicle for you!
Integrated Building Systems is partnering with Columbus Micro Systems for this year’s event. This fellow family-owned business ensures that electronic waste will be recycled in compliance with EPA and R2 certified recycling standards.
There is no fee to recycle most items such as hard drives, laptops, keyboards, mice, cords, cables, and network devices. Fees are charged to cover the costs of processing hazardous material and excessive plastic.
View our event page for a list of what can and cannot be recycled as well as applicable fees.
Don’t forget about paper
In addition to e-waste, this event will also accept paper for free shredding. Integrated Building System’s paper shredding partner, Royal Document Destruction, ensures confidential documents are destroyed securely.
There is a limit of 5 banker boxes that can be dropped off per car. Accepted items include color paper, brochures, envelopes, legal pads, and even paper with staples, paper clips, or bindings. Make sure that your boxes are free of trash, batteries, excess metal, plastic, and cardboard.
Check out more details on our event page.
E-waste recycling FAQs
I’m concerned about data security on the devices I want to recycle. What is the process for data destruction?
Columbus Micro Systems is an R2v3 certified company. The R2v3 Standard provides specific guidelines for data sanitization using physical destruction and logical sanitization (data erasure) methods. All data is erased on the premises with security coverage.
Can I get a certificate of data destruction for the items I drop off at the recycling drive?
Certificates of destruction require a thorough documentation and processing of equipment, which is not possible to provide during this type of community drop-off event. Contact Columbus Micro Systems for more information.
Why are there recycling fees for some items, like $15 for LCD TVs?
Many parts of electronic waste can be recycled, such as metal and certain types of glass and plastic. Recycling fees help cover the disposal charges for parts that cannot be recycled, such as hazardous tubes from old televisions and computer monitors, non-recyclable plastic (which makes up the bulk of desktop printers, scanners, and faxes), and even the glass from CRT monitors.
