The Great Big Recycling Event

Start collecting your unwanted, hard-to-recycle items for the spring Great Big Recycling Event! The AA Greening Group will take these items to CHaRM (the Center for Hard to Recycle Materials) for you, keeping harmful contaminants out of landfills.

Please bring only the items listed below to the Synagogue’s upper parking lot. Please note the increased charges. We will weigh what you bring. Greening Group volunteers will help you unload and collect fees and donations (always welcomed).

• Styrofoam (e.g., coolers and appliance packing)(no packing peanuts)
• Small appliances ($.55 per pound)
• TVs and monitors ($25 per item)
• Electronics, electrical cords, batteries (no alkaline), and chargers ($.55 per pound)
• Fluorescent bulb tubes ($1 per bulb)
• CDs and CD cases (separated; no paper covers or inserts)
• Plastic pill bottles (with recycling numbers 1, 2, or 5)
• Glass bottles (clean and dry; no lids) ($.35 per pound)
• Books (hardback or paperback)
• Plastic bags (ones that stretch like grocery bags; no crackly bags or bubble plastic)
• Plastic film (filmy white or clean food service like Saran wrap)
• Plastic containers (with triangular recycle numbers 1, 2, 4, 5, or 6)
• Household chemicals (e.g., herbicides, pesticides, bug spray, drain cleaner)($.85 per pound)
• Scrap metals

Questions? Call June Neumark (404.213.7540), Patsy Little (770.823.7609), or Myrtle Lewin (404.409.3169).