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Hosting an E-Waste Drop-Off For Businesses
Hosting an E-Waste Drop-Off for the Community
Help keep electronics from the landfill, one community at a time!
Hosting an e-waste drop-off is a great way for local businesses to get involved and show the community that they care about the environment and support responsible e-waste recycling.
Benefits to your company
There are many benefits to hosting an E-Waste Drop-Off event for your community. Here are just a few:
- Affiliate your company/brand with the going green movement
- Boost your visibility in the community and set yourself apart from your competitors
- Take advantage of affordable, mixed media marketing
- Provide volunteer opportunities for employees
Event Marketing
E-waste Drop-off events are marketed in a variety of ways. Your company's name will reach audiences all over Central Ohio. Here’s where your company's event will appear:
- Advertisements in This Week Community Papers
- Submitted to TV network and On-line Community Calendars
- Social media (Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In)
- BGH Newsletter
- Press releases
- Included BigGreenHead.com Socially Responsible Businesses page
- On flyers handed out to cars dropping off electronics
Specifics
- We ask that you provide 5-6 volunteers (per shift) to help unload cars and hand out promotional material on event day.
- We charge a $1200 fee to cover marketing costs.
Hosting an E-Waste Drop-Off for Your Employees
There is no charge to host an event for your employees.- Decide on a date and time
- Big Green Head will provide promotional material that can be distributed via company e-mail promoting the event.
- Accurate IT will park a box truck in the company parking lot allowing employees to drive-up and drop-off electronics before reporting to work.
- No volunteers are needed.
- Drop-off is free except we charge $15 for tube TVs due to the hazardous materials they contain.
- Your company will be listed on the Big Green Head website as a socially responsible business in regard to the environment.
Hosting an E-Waste Drop-Off as a School Fundraiser
How Does It Work?
- Set a date.
- Get school approval/fill out necessary forms
- Promote, promote, promote.
- Organize student volunteers.
- Set out a “fundraising” tip jar and help unload cars.
- Wave to residents and smile as thousands of pounds of e-waste are kept from the landfill, recycled into other products, or put to reuse.
- BGH & Accurate IT will donate money for every pound collected at your event. The more you collect, the more you earn!
What Are the Benefits of Hosting anE-Waste Drop-Off?
- Your recycling event will bring environmental awareness to the entire community.
- Provide a community service allowing residents and businesses the opportunity to responsibly eliminate old electronics for FREE.*
- Provide a volunteer opportunity to students.
- Raise money for your programs.
* Please note there is a $15 charge for tube TVs.
How Does Big Green Head Help Make Your Event a Success?
- Provide electronic promotional fliers to email to friends, neighbors and businesses.
- Announce your event through Big Green Head's social networks.
- Submit a press release prior to your event announcing your event to the news media.
- Submit a press release after your event announcing your success.
- Include you on the Big Green Head website as a “Community/School Going Green”.
Ready to get started? Contact Karen today at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it !
About Accurate IT
Commitment to the Environment
Accurate IT Services is committed to sound environmental practices and the well-being of our common environment. Our goal is to ensure our facility and operation is in compliance with EPA, ISO 14001 standards, and Responsible Recycling’s management strategies. We are dedicated to responsible recycling in all facets of the reuse and recycle management strategies in both our onsite activities and selection of down-stream vendors.
- Professional staff dedicated to handling your retired electronic equipment.
- Safe and secure processing of equipment in accordance with EPA, R2, and NIST guidelines.
- Successful history of handling retired IT assets from businesses, governments, school districts, non-profits, and communities.
- Proudly minority owned and veteran operated in Columbus since 2001.
Dedication to You
We draw on our own diversified resources to achieve success in situations that force other companies to outsource or avoid. We are able to afford personal attention and flexible accommodations to clients that larger corporations lose in the shuffle, while offering premiere industry services at an affordable price.
Hosting an E-Waste Drop-Off
E-Waste Drop-Off Participants
| Bruner Corp | White Castle |
| Easton Town Center | Easton Farmers Market |
| Celebrate Local | City of Powell |
| Bishop Watterson High School | Reynoldsburg High School |
| Thomas Worthington High School | |
Find out how you can host an e-waste drop-off at your school or place of business.
Volunteering Opportunities
Change starts right here... in your own community. Whether you are a student in need of community service, a business looking to get involved, or a citizen who wants to give back, Big Green Head has several fun, easy (and green!) opportunities.
Green on the Green – May19th 2012
Hosted on Worthington’s historical Village Green in conjunction with the Worthington Farmers Market, this annual green festival hosts 60-80 vendors and draws an estimated 3,000 visitors each spring.
Volunteer duties include:
Pre-event
- Distribute flyers
Day of event
- Set up
- Vendor Check-in
- Hand out FREE t-shirts
- Greet visitors at BGH tent
- Clean-up
Electronic Recycling
Big Green Head needs helping hands to unload vehicles on event day. It’s a great way to help your neighbors and the environment!
Volunteer duties include:- Unload cars on event day
- Wear the BGH mascot and wave
- Hand out educational information to cars on event day
For more information, please contact Karen, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Worthington’s Winter Farmers Market
The Indoor Winter Farmers Market, sponsored by the Olde Worthington Business Association, takes place every Saturday, January through April, 10am-1pm at the Griswold Center, 777 High Street.
Volunteer duties include:
Set up
- 9 am for approximately 1 hour: mark off vendor spaces, set up Farmer's Market information table, assist vendors with set up
Tear down
- 1 pm for approximately 1 hour: taking down all market materials and signage, clean-up of Griswold center (vacuuming floors, collecting trash, etc.)
Information Booth
- Two shifts - 1.5 hours each, 10-11:30, 11:30-1:00, duties include: act as a greeter for market patrons, be available for questions, ask them to sign up for Farmer's Market newsletter, etc.
Powell E-Cycle It Day
E-cycle It Day
Keeping electronics from the landfill one community at a time
Saturday, October 22, 2011
9am-1pm
47 Hall Street, Powell, OH 43065
Located in the Powell Municipal Building Parking Lot
Got old, unwanted, broken electronics? Bring them to Powell’s 1st Annual E-cycle It Day!
The purpose of this one-day drop off program is to provide Powell residents a convenient means in which to responsibly discard electronics.
Did you know that the nation now dumps between
300 million and 400 million electronic items per year?
Those unwanted electronics are called e-waste
and less than 20% are recycled.
Please note we require a $15 contribution for each CRT and/or tube TV (old bulky computer monitors) as these items contain hazardous materials and require special handling for proper disposal. We appreciate your contribution and effort to keep these items from the landfill.
To see a complete list of acceptable items please visit www.BigGreenHead.com/e-cycle-it-day and for questions contact Karen – This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Volunteering Opportunity
Change starts right here... in your own community. Get involved and volunteer at your local E-cycle It Day drop-off event.
Big Green Head needs helping hands to unload vehicles on event day. It’s a great way to help your neighbors and the environment!
This is a terrific opportunity for service groups, environmental groups, schools, teams etc.
For more information, please contact Karen, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
E-Waste Drop-Off Acceptable Items
Below is a list of items accepted for the E-Waste Drop-Off program. Please note that there is a $15 charge for CRT/tube TVs.*
We can accept anything that plugs in or requires a charger, with a few exceptions** (see exceptions at the bottom of the page)
| Amplifiers | Batteries |
| Cables | Cases |
| Cameras | CD-ROM |
| Cell Phones | Computers |
| Copiers | CRT Monitors |
| CRT Televisions* | Digital Cameras |
| DVD Players | Fax Machines |
| Floppy Drives | Game Systems |
| Hard Drives - guaranteed data destruction |
Holiday Lights |
| Keyboards | Laptops |
| LCD Monitors | LCD TVs |
| Mice | Network Equipment |
| Plasma TVs | Power Supplies |
| Printers | Routers |
| Scanners | Servers |
| Speakers | Switches |
| Telecom | UPS |
| VHS Tapes | Wireless Equipment |
| Appliances that do not contain frion** |
*$15 charge for Tube TVs. These items contain hazardous materials which require special handling.
**We cannot accept freezers, refrigerators or AC units as they contain freon. Please contact us and we can recommend a place to take these items.
GUARANTEED DATA DESTRUCTION ON ALL HARD DRIVES
For questions about specific items, please contact Jeremy Martin, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
If you are a business interested in participating in the E-waste Drop-off program, please contact Karen Ferris, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Sponsor an E-Waste Drop-Off!
Help keep electronics from the landfill, one community at a time!
Sponsorships are a great way for local businesses to get involved and show their community that they care about the environment and support responsible e-waste recycling. Your company will be recognized as a supporter of this important, environmental, community service.
Did you know: Five years ago, more than 2 million tons of TVs, PCs, peripheral items, keyboards and cell phones were discarded? Of that number, about 80 to 85% (1.5 to 1.9 million tons) was discarded in landfills.
Below you will find three sponsorship opportunities, allowing companies, big and small, a chance to get involved and show their “green” side.
Sponsorship
| Sponsorship Levels |
Ad on E-Waste website |
All Promotional Materials | Graphic ad promotional t-shirts (front) |
Graphic ad on promotional t-shirts (back) |
Printed name on promotional t-shirts (back) |
Included in Sponsor Page on Website (1 full year) |
| Emerald -- Main sponsor** |
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| Pine $150 | |
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**For Emerald level, in-kind and trade sponsorships, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
We appreciate your interest and hope you will join Big Green Head in bringing opportunity, education and awareness to the growing problem of e-waste: the fastest growing segment of our nation’s trash.
To sponsor an event, please contact Karen, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Green Regards,
The BGH Team
E-Waste Drop-Off
Electronic Waste Drop-off Program
Keeping electronics from the landfill, one community at a time!
Big Green Head (a monster on a mission) and Accurate IT (a certified responsible recycler) have teamed up to bring electronic recycling to communities in Central Ohio.
Our E-Waste Drop-Off program is a one-day electronic recycling event hosted at various locations around Central Ohio. Each event allows residents the opportunity to conveniently and responsibly dispose of obsolete, unwanted and broken electronics, with a portion of the proceeds being donated to a cause/group. The program was created with three (3) goals:
- Educate people on the growing problem of e-waste (the fastest growing segment of our nation’s trash).
- Provide them with a convenient method to responsibly dispose of e-waste.
- Ensure that collected items are handled in an environmentally-responsible manner.
One of the aspects of this program includes engaging volunteers in community service. We have had great success working with local high schools, empowering students to think and act green, while raising money for their school programs.
We invite you to contact us to schedule an E-Waste Drop-Off event in your community and bring opportunity, education, and awareness to the growing problem of e-waste.
Did you know that the nation now dumps between 300 million and 400 million electronic items per year? Those unwanted electronics are called e-waste and less than 20% are recycled.
When electronics get put in the landfill...
- Valuable materials such as precious metals, copper, and engineered plastics are wasted. By collecting and recycling these resources we save energy, reduce pollution, reduce greenhouse gasses and save raw materials from the earth.
Recycling one million laptops saves the enough energy to power 3,657 US homes in a year. [Source: EPA]
- Hazardous materials are found in some of your electronics such as lead, nickel, cadmium, and mercury. It’s important that these materials get handled and discarded responsibly. When discarded in our landfills, they pose a risk to our health and environment.
TV’s and computer monitors containing cathode ray tubes (CRT's) contain 6-8 lbs of LEAD.
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