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Habitat for Humanity Chicago South Suburbs and Vintage Tech Recyclers Offer Free Responsible Electronics Recycling


Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—June 18, 2012  –  Habitat for Humanity Chicago South Suburbs would like to announce an exciting new partnership with Vintage Tech Recyclers.  The Chicago Heights Habitat for Humanity ReStore is pleased to inform local businesses and consumers of a new drop-off opportunity for old electronics.

Chicagoland residents are now encouraged to recycle outdated and unwanted electronics through the Chicago Heights ReStore (180 W. Joe Orr Road, Chicago Heights) during the drop-off hours of operation.  Donations will be accepted Wednesday-Friday from 10am-6pm, Saturday from 9am-4pm and Sunday from 9am-3pm.

Habitat for Humanity will be rolling these services out around the state in the coming months and this will be the first collection event to take place from HFH in Illinois.

“Electronics Recycling is a service that the community needs, “said David Tracy, Executive Director for the affiliate.  We are excited to launch this partnership with Vintage Tech Recyclers from Romeoville Il, who is the service provider, he added.  Vintage Tech Recyclers, Inc is an R2/ISO 14001 and WBENC Certified company who has partnered with manufactures that will be funding the recycling cost for Habitat for Humanity ReStore.

The ReStore will be conducting a kickoff collection event at ReStore on April 29th from 10am-6pm and April 30th from 9am-4pm.  Habitat ReStore is located at 180 W. Joe Orr Road in Chicago Heights, IL.

Items accepted:

Computers, Laptops, Monitors, LCD’s, Cell Phones, Printers, Scanners, Modems, CD drives, Cables, Keyboards, Mice, TV’s, VCR’s, DVD players, Camcorders, Cameras, Game Players and joysticks; Telephones, Pagers, Answering Machines, Typewriters, Calculators, adding machines, Fax machines, Copiers and Postage meters

For more information about Responsible Electronic Recycling visit Vintage Tech’s web site at: www.Vintagetechrecyclers.com


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