Click here for directions to the E-cycling event.  Residents may bring up to three (3) of each type of electronic equipment accepted (i.e.: three computers, and three printers, and three cassette players, etc.).  There is no fee to residents to participate in the program.  Residents are responsible for removal of any personal data contained on electronic devices and computer hard drives.  Businesses and other non-profit entities are not eligible to participate in this program. 

E-cycling Accepted Items:

Items accepted include answering machines, compact disc players, electric typewriters, fax machines, hard drives, laptops, mobile phones, modems, microwave ovens, pagers, personal computers (CPU, monitors, keyboards, mouse, and peripherals), printers, printed circuit boards, radios, remote controls, stereos, tape players, telephones/telephone equipment, televisions, and VCR’s.

Do Not Bring:

Electric equipment (such as toasters, hair dryers, wall clocks, or electric razors) OR construction demolition, furniture, appliances, white goods, or household hazardous waste.

Why is Electronic Waste

a Potential Problem?

Electronic equipment contains lead, mercury, cadmium and chromium which have environmental consequences when disposed of improperly.  One computer can contain up to as much as eight pounds of lead. 

What Happens to the Electronics

I Bring to the Event?

The Authority hires an outside vendor specializing in electronics recycling to manage the materials collected during this event.  The vendor will harvest useable parts (circuit boards, power supplies, wood, plastic, and CRT glass); valuable metals (gold, copper, steel, aluminum); and potentially harmful components (lead, mercury and cadmium) and recycle them.  Virtually all but one percent of the materials are recycled into new products.

How Can I Participate?  

All York County homeowners or residential tenants are eligible to participate in this program.  Commercial entities are not eligible to participate.  In addition, homeowners and residential tenants who reside in a municipality that has contractually agreed to deliver waste only to the York County Resource Recovery Center may also participate.  Those municipalities include Swatara Township, Highspire Borough, and McSherrystown Borough.