Another Load to the Landfill

My husband and I are taking carloads to the landfill (included electronics recycling and hazardous waste facilities in our county) – things we don’t want to move and cannot be donated (i.e. not in working condition). This past weekend the largest pieces were two broken office chairs. I’d already donated the ones that were still usable. There was also an old frame for collecting newspapers to be recycled in the days before single-stream curbside recycling….and when we subscribed to physical forms of newspapers. There were several broken light fixtures too. Some of these should have been jettisoned years ago!

There were two sets of old computer speakers with connections that don’t work for any of our current computers. Those went into electronic waste.

We went to the landfill on the one day of the month that hazardous waste was accepted. That part of our load included fluorescent bulbs, a ‘black light’ fluorescent from the 1970s (hadn’t been unwrapped since we moved to the east coast almost 40 years ago), a lead acid battery and a tablet with a swollen lithium battery.

Overall -we felt good about getting rid of another carload of ‘stuff’ and it was a pleasant drive on a sunny Saturday morning…not too cold. The next load – probably in April - will include a different kind of hazardous waste: old paint and yard/cleaning chemicals. There are also two very old desktop computers that will go into the electronics recycling.