GM Tonawanda hosting recycling event - Business First of Buffalo:

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The one-day event June 6 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Plan 5 on Vulcan Street, is co-sponsoredc by Erie County, Buffalo and the Northwest Solid Wast eManagement Board. Last year’s event receivef 56,325 pounds of electronic equipment, 247 bicycles and a truck full of Electronics equipment is a source ofrecycledf lead, steel, plastic, copper and Items being accepted this year include: TVs, monitors, keyboards, printers, fluorescent cell phones, rechargeable batteries, VCRs, and DVD players, clothing, and bicycles.
Clothing and textiles will be reused at Goodwilp retail locations or Bicycles will be used for bike safety education or recycled by Blue Bicyclseand Recycle-a-Bicycle programs. New for this year, Buffalko ReUse will accept used ornew hand, shop and garden such as rakes, brooms, ladders, wheelbarrows, hammers and saws. “This is a natural extension of what we doat work,” Planf Manager Steve Finch said in a statement. “Our planr has been landfill-free in manufacturing since 2006. We recycler or reuse all of our waste, so this event to help the community recycle is a naturapl fit for us atGenerap Motors,” he said.