Recycle Used Electronics, Bikes, at the Market Common Clarendon

The Market Common Clarendon is hosting a ‘SpringGreen’ event ahead of Earth Day next week.

The shopping plaza will be a hub for old documents, electronics, and bicycles for recycling and re-use from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday at 2700 Clarendon Blvd.

Earth Day is officially celebrated on April 22 each year.

Several organizations will be collecting items Friday:

• A Better Way Computer Recycling, based in Maryland, will collect electronics for recycling including: Computers, laptops, hard drives*, servers, wire, CRT monitors*, LCD monitors, bar coding equipment, printers – laser, ink, and toner cartridges, point of sale equipment, plotters, copiers, UPS backup systems, keyboards, fax, mice, PDAs, cell phones, switches, hubs, smart phones, routers, tablets, Cisco equipment, communications equipment, mainframes, tape drives, radios.
  * - Fees apply for CRT monitors and certified data destruction. Among other unacceptable items, no televisions will be collected.
   
• TrueShred, a document shredding company based in Gainesville, Va., will collect documents for shredding on site.
• Bikes for the World, a nonprofit based in Arlington that makes the bikes available to lower income people and those in the developing world, is collecting used bicycles and bicycle accessories, hand tools, and portable sewing machines (repairable or working condition).

Find out more information about the event on the Market Common Clarendon site or by calling 703-785-5634.