Electronics Recycling

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From now until January 14, 2025- bring your string Christmas lights and extension cords for recycling. Drop them off at our office and we will transport them to Rapid City to be recycled free of charge.

Thank you to our 2024 Sponsors!

City of Sundance

Gold Level: Sundance State Bank, Powder River Energy

Silver Level: Pinnacle Bank, Neiman Enterprises

Bronze Level: Blakeman Propane

A list of acceptable items for e-cycling collection in 2024, including various electronics like PCs, speakers, and kitchen appliances.

Items they do not accept:

· CRT TVs or monitors (the old tube type). This does NOT include flatscreen TV’s and monitors.

· Major appliances such as stoves, washers, dryers, and dishwashers

· Household and kitchen appliances

· Anything with Freon: air conditioners and refrigerators

· Light Bulbs or Fluorescent Tubes

· Paint, antifreeze, or oil

· Vacuums

Batteries will be taken by our board member Lily Altaffer to another recycler. She can take household batteries, automototive and equipment batteries, power tool batteries, and small lawn batteries. Please keep these items separated from the other items.

CCNRD believes that electronics recycling is important and would like to make sure you know about other area options.

BHSU in Spearfish offers electronics recycling January through March. This is an annual event. Please click the link for more information: BHSU Electronics Recycling

Green Wizard Technologies in Rapid City recycles electronics for free year round. Please click the link for more information Green Wizard Technology

People unloading boxes from a truck in a parking lot, possibly for an event or donation drive. — On September 7, 2024 the CCNRD collected about 6,150 pounds of electronic waste and nearly 50 large batteries, and a large quanitity of smaller batteries for recycling.

At the event, items are weighed, categorized, and loaded onto a trailer with the help of Protech Computing and local volunteers. A list of acceptable items is provided ahead of the event to help residents sort their items.

On September 7, 2024, the CCNRD held an electronic recycling event in Sundance collecting about 6,150 pounds of electronic waste, 18 car batteries, 22 smaller automotive batteries, and a large quanitiy of household batteries. These events prevent unwanted electronics from entering the landfill in Crook County or from being shipped to other countries. The CCNRD takes great pride in providing this service with the financial assistance of the Crook County Commissioners, City of Sundance, sponsorships from Sundance State Bank, Powder River Energy, Neiman Enterprises, Pinnacle Bank and Blakeman Propane were received as well to help offset the rising costs in recycling and allowed the CCNRD to collect items without charging to take them.

A truck labeled "Yellowstone E-Waste Solutions" with electronics recycling on the side, next to cardboard boxes with discarded electronics. — All done and ready to fill the truck with 6,150 pounds of electronic waste

These events have taken place annually since 2016 with an average collection of nearly 8,400 pounds of waste per year and a total of over 75,400 pounds of electronic waste recycled!