Did you know you can upcycle uncommon items such as printer cartridges and televisions? It’s true.
Upcycling opportunities shift frequently. Check each opportunity to learn about its current availability.
Mercer County’s hazardous and e-waste collections:
- Go to an Event. Three times a year, look for MCIA Household Hazardous Waste Collection and Electronics Recycling Events, which collect everything from aerosol cans to fluorescent bulbs and televisions from Mercer County residents.
- Download the app. Don’t miss a collectoin event! Download the Recycle Coach app to your smartphone or bookmark this link.
Take advantage of these local year-round collections for hard-to-recycle items:
- Plastic Film & Bag Collection: We partner with our local grocery store, McCaffrey’s and several businesses and nonprofits to collect plastic bags and other plastic films. Learn more here.
- Technology and office items: Staples on Route 1 collects electronics, bags, and office items all year round.
- Light bulbs: Lowe’s on Route 1 collects CFL light bulbs.
- Wireless Alliance Collection: Wireless Alliance collection boxes in Monument Hall and 400 Witherspoon accept cell phones & tablets (along with their accessories), printer cartridges, and batteries. All batteries from handheld devices are accepted, but please be sure to tape battery ends to prevent electrical discharge during shipping.
- Call2Recycle Collections: Offered at some local hardware stores, the Call2Recycle collection allows you to drop or ship select batteries and cell phones.
Stay tuned for these additional collection opportunities:
- SHREDfest: The Municipality of Princeton hosts this event twice a year. Learn more on their website.
- Sustainable Princeton Upcycling at SHRED Fest: Several times a year, we collect styrofoam, cell phones, reusable bags, and more at the Municipal SHRED Fest Events. Learn more about our collections here.
Stay informed. Please sign up for our newsletter to receive notices about each of these events.
Did you know?
- Frames from foam? It’s true. We deliver packaging StyrofoamⓇ to Princeton Moulding where it is upcycled into picture frames. That’s not all. Raybob Packaging Inc. in Tullytown, PA also accepts certain types of styrofoam for upcycling.
- Adirondack chairs from plastic bags? Most grocery stores deliver plastic bags and films to TrexⓇ which upcycles them into outdoor furniture and decking material.
- Thanks McCaffrey’s. Since the Plastic Film & Bag Collection began in 2013, the equivalent of over 2 million plastic bags have been collected throughout Princeton for upcycling by McCaffrey’s Food Market.
