Public e-waste collection program
Currently on hold – please send an email to lisak@csufresno.edu to request an email notification when a collection date is selected.
Why are we doing this?
On February 9, 2006, it became unlawful to dispose of e-waste in the regular waste stream. We recognized that Fresno County households and businesses had few options for the recycling of e-waste (including CRTs). As a result, the University started providing the public with a collection point for these materials in January 2006.
E-Waste Collection Dates:
The last E-Waste Collection date was Oct. 18, 2008. The program was placed on hold until a suitable e-waste recycling company could be selected that would provide a more economic solution for the public. .
Items we accept for FREE ...
- Computer monitors (cathode ray tube, plasma and LC)
- Visual display devices, including televisions (with screens measuring over 4 inches diagonally).
- Personal Computer Components: Mice, Keyboards, Computer towers (also occasionally referred to as hard drives), and all components normally housed within a computer tower
- Computer cords/wires
- Chargers
- PDA (or Personal Digital Assistants) and peripherals associated with them.
- Microwave Ovens
- Cell phones
- Office Devices: Printers (Ink/Toner cartridges must be removed). Fax machines, and similar office devices.
- Stereo/audio and video/DVD equipment.
- Large appliances: such as clothes washers and dryers, refrigerators and freezers*, conventional ovens and ranges, air conditioners
- Up to five fluorescent light tubes or compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFL)
* Must be emptied and cleaned.
Items we accept at OUR COST (Checks or Cash accepted on site):
- Fluorescent light tubes or compact fluorescent light bulbs: $4.25/lb
- Batteries (dry cell): $1.50/lb
Items we cannot accept *** ...
- Large medical equipment
- Ink Cartridges
- Uninterruptible Power Supplies, also known as UPS's **
- Any leaking equipment or equipment covered with an unidentifiable substance
- Industrial scale print process equipment
- Any item too large to fit on a four foot square pallet
- Liquid cooling system components
- Large industrial equipment that may have had contact with Hazardous Materials and may retain some residual of those materials
- A video display device that is contained within a clothes washer, clothes dryer, refrigerator, refrigerator and freezer, microwave oven, conventional oven or range, dishwasher, room air-conditioner, dehumidifier, air purifier or other similarly sized piece of equipment
* We reserve the right to refuse any item.
** These contain lead acid batteries.
*** Resources for waste that we do not accept - try the Fresno County Household Hazardous Waste Program
e-Waste volunteers assemble for group photo with Lisa Kao
Campus collections facts
- 2006: 244,265 lbs. collected; 2161 customers served
- 2007: 96,294 lbs. collected; 891 customers served.
- 2008: 67,340 lbs. collected; 520 customers served.
