Interior Alaska Green Star started as a volunteer effort and remains possible only due to the support it receives from many dedicated volunteers. Our volunteers are a diverse group – students, professionals, office workers, retirees. One thing we all have in common is a desire to make a better world by helping our community reduce waste, conserve energy, reuse or recycle as much as possible, and preserve a healthy and beautiful environment.

If you have the desire and a little time and energy we could really use some help for our upcoming event:

Electronics Recycling Collection
Saturday April 26th 2008 10 am to 4 pm

Contact: Darcie Warden, 907.452.4152, darcie at iagreenstar.org

We will be collecting electronic wastes for recycling – anything with a circuit board, including computers, monitors, keyboards, televisions, cell phones, microwaves, and printers.

The items will be packed onto pallets and loaded onto trailers for shipment to a recycling firm in Seattle. Volunteers sign up for 3 hour shifts for the Saturday event: 9:30 am to 1pm and 12:30pm to 4:15 pm. The extra half hour in the beginning is for training and orientation.

For the event, we will need volunteers to act as:

• Greeters/Traffic Directors: meet people as they drive up to site, direct them to the unloading area, answer questions, hand out informational flyers
• Unloaders: reasonablly strong people to unload electronics (up to 45 pounds each) from cars
• Check-in People: track and mark off on a checklist what’s being unloaded from each vehicle
• Hard Drive Destructor: Remove and drill out hard drive for anyone wishing to destroy all data on computers they brought.
• Sorters: sort medium and small electronics, cables, manuals, peripherals
• Pallet packers and wrappers: load and pack pallets, wrap
• Cashiers: accept payment of recycling fees and issue receipts if requested
• Gophers: errands as required, organize refreshments

We could also use help in posting flyers a couple weeks before the event.

If you are interested in helping in any way, please contact us.

Interior Alaska Green Star
PO Box 82391
Fairbanks, AK, 99708
info at iagreenstar.org
907.452.4152