CAMDEN COUNTY HELPS WITH YOUR SPRING CLEANING
Free Household Special Waste Collection, Electronics Recycling Collection and Paper Shredding Days Benefit the Environment
For Immediate Release: March 20, 2008
Contacts: RON TOMASELLO

“Improperly disposed of household waste becomes an environmental pollutant,” said Freeholder Jeffrey L. Nash, the Freeholder Board’s liaison to Environmental Affairs. “Each year, Camden County’s Special Household Waste Collection Program keeps over 400,000 pounds of hazardous material from the county waste stream.”

Camden County offers the following ways to help your family stay clean and green:

March 29 – Household Special Waste Collection Day – 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM
Cherry Hill Public Works Complex, 1 Perina Drive, Cherry Hill

Household Special Waste is any material discarded from the home that poses a risk to human health or the environment. Camden County residents are asked to keep the environment healthy by bringing oil-based paints, solvents, thinners, pesticides, herbicides, gasoline, kerosene, polishes, photographic chemicals, automotive batteries, antifreeze, brake fluid, transmission fluid, other car products, pool chemicals and cleaning fluids to convenient drive-through disposal sites.

April 12 – Electronics Recycling Collection – 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Camden County Public Works Complex, 2311 Egg Harbor Road, Lindenwold

Recycling your electronics keeps dangerous materials such as lead, mercury, cadmium and chromium from being released into the environment. The following items can be brought to the electronics collection at no charge to Camden County residents: computers, keyboards, VCRs, scanners, DVD players, tape players, monitors, stereo equipment, typewriters, printers, TVs, laptops, modems, telecommunication equipment, fax machines, mousse, radios, telephone and answering machines.

April 19 – Document Shredding Day – 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Camden County College, CIM Parking Lot, Peter Cheeseman Road, Blackwood

To help in the fight against identity theft, the Camden County Freeholder Board is sponsoring a free shredding day for Camden County residents wanting to destroy documents containing personal information. To date, enough paper has been recycled to save over 1,100 trees. Industrial size shredder trucks will be on site to destroy private documents while residents watch. No businesses are permitted, and a limit of 175 pounds of paper per household is requested.

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