The Vermilion County Health Department will hold a free electronics collection event from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 6 in the north parking lot of Danville Area Community College, 2000 East Main Street in Danville for all county residents. Residents are encouraged to bring their broken, obsolete or unwanted televisions, monitors, cell phones and other electronic items to the collection event so they can be recycled. Microwaves will also be accepted for this collection event.
The event is jointly sponsored by Danville Area Community College, the Vermilion County Health Department, and Keep Vermilion County Beautiful, and is open to any County resident, including City of Danville residents. Proof of residency of those taking part in the collection will be checked. Vermilion County residents will be limited to a maximum combination of seven items.
“In the past, we haven’t been able to accept microwaves so we’re excited to be able to accept them during our spring collection,” said Jana Messmore, the Vermilion County Health Department’s Director of Environmental Health. “As a safety precaution, we ask that participants remove batteries from electronics prior to dropping them off at the collection.”
Terri Cummings, the Dean of Business and Technology at DACC, said that the college is happy to collaborate with the health department and Keep Vermilion County Beautiful to offer electronics recycling to the residents of Vermilion County.
“Encouraging environmental sustainability is a goal of the college, so we’re always happy to be a part of the electronics recycling collection event,” said Cummings.
