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SWA’s Household Hazardous Waste Tip

Do Good By Your • Belle Glade bad encore for old or outdated items with a cord that could
Dead Devices Glades Regional Transfer Station have wound up in a landfill.
1701 State Road 15 in Belle Glade

For the past few years, the SWA’s Home Chemical and
Monday to Friday: 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Recycling Centers have either recycled or safely disposed of
Black Friday Is No Match For Outmoded • Royal Palm Beach about 4 million pounds of household hazardous wastes.
Machine Monday West Central Transfer Station Remember, pollution prevention starts at home. A full list
If the holidays have you 9743 Weisman Way in Royal Palm Beach of household hazardous wastes can be found at SWA.org/
replacing that eight-track player, Monday to Friday: 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. HCRC<http://www.swa.org/HCRC> or call (561) 697-2700
upgrading your ancient Atari, or Saturday: 7 a.m.to 3 p.m. or 866-SWA-INFO (toll-free) to learn more about the Solid
stocking up on new televisions, • Lantana Waste Authority of Palm Beach County’s Home Chemical and
computers or other electronics, Central County Transfer Station Recycling Centers.
don’t just stow those outdated 1810 Lantana Road in Lantana About The SWA
devices in your garage or attic! Monday to Friday: 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Solid Waste Authority (SWA) of Palm Beach County
Instead, recycle them at the Solid Saturday: 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. is a Dependent Special District that was created by the Florida
Waste Authority of Palm Beach • Delray Beach – West Legislature in 1975. Since then, the SWA has developed an
County. Southwest County Transfer Station award-winning integrated solid waste management system to
Accepted Items Include: 13400 S. State Road 7 in Delray Beach handle the county’s waste and recyclables. We call ourselves
• Audio/visual equipment: VCRs, stereos, etc. Monday to Friday: 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. AWAY: whether you throw it, recycle it or flush it AWAY, we
• Cell phones and rechargeable batteries Saturday: 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. put your waste to work. Each year, we:
• Computer CPUs and laptops • Delray Beach – East • Process more than 90,000 tons of recyclables. <http://www.
• Computer monitors South County Transfer Station swa.org/RecycleRight
• Computer accessories: keyboards, mouse devices, printers, 1901 S.W. 4th Ave. in Delray Beach • Burn approximately 1.8 million tons of trash to generate
scanners, etc. Monday to Friday: 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. electricity at renewable energy facilities. <https://swa.org/
• Televisions Saturday: 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Facilities/Facility/PrepopulatedSearch?isReservableOnly=fa
• Telecommunications equipment: phones, fax machines, etc. Commercial quantity electronics may require special lse&categoryIDs=4
• Holiday lights disposal. Call (561) 687-1100 for details on recycling • Produce enough electricity to power approximately 74,000
Palm Beach County residents can bring all of these electronics from your business. homes.
electronic items to any of seven Solid Waste Authority of Palm Collected items are sorted by SWA staff and hauled • Recycle more than 150,000 tons of wastewater treatment
Beach County Home Chemical and Recycling Centers. away by a private contractor. Any useful components are residuals <https://swa.org/Facilities/Facility/Details/
The SWA’s Locations Include (From North County To recovered and reused when possible. Everything else is Biosolids-Processing-Facility-20> (sludge from flushes) into
South County): shredded, sorted by type and each material – plastics, metals environmentally-friendly fertilizer.
• Jupiter and glass – is recycled into new products. • Safely dispose of more than 3.9 million pounds of home
North County Transfer Station By recycling electronics, you can help protect the health hazards. <http://swa.org/hcrc>
14185 N. Military Trail (SWA Road) in Jupiter of your community, family and environment; reduce the • Collect water off of the roofs of Renewable Energy
Monday to Friday: 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. pollution created by manufacturing new products; and Facility 2 <https://swa.org/Facilities/Facility/Details/
Saturday: 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. reduce the energy needed to make those new products. For Renewable-Energy-Facility-2-11> and store it in a 2 million-
• West Palm Beach more information on electronics recycling, visit SWA.org/ gallon cistern, which is used as part of the energy making
Home Chemical and Recycling Center Electronics<https://www.swa.org/180/Electronics> or call process.
6161 N. Jog Road in West Palm Beach (561) 687-1100. Anyone can now sign up to receive SWA news, calendar
Monday to Friday: 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. In the last fiscal year, Palm Beach County residents updates, jobs, or other Web postings of interest by signing up
Saturday: 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. recycled more than 864,000 pounds of electronics. Not a online <http://www.swa.org/list.aspx>.

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