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Tons recycled, rather than trashed, at ZWV event

Published 5:30 pm Tuesday, April 15, 2025

By Beachcomber Staff

Monitors, microwave ovens and printers were just some of the items kept out of landfills and instead recycled at the Zero Waste Vashon event. (Zero Waste Vashon photo)
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Monitors, microwave ovens and printers were just some of the items kept out of landfills and instead recycled at the Zero Waste Vashon event. (Zero Waste Vashon photo)

Monitors, microwave ovens and printers were just some of the items kept out of landfills and instead recycled at the Zero Waste Vashon event. (Zero Waste Vashon photo)
Monitors, microwave ovens and printers were just some of the items kept out of landfills and instead recycled at the Zero Waste Vashon event. (Zero Waste Vashon photo)
Motorists line up to drop off electronics at the Zero Waste Vashon electronics recycling event. (Zero Waste Vashon photo)

More than 7,000 pounds of electronics were diverted from the county landfill and recycled thanks to Zero Waste Vashon’s eighth annual electronics recycling event on Saturday, April 12 at Vashon High School.

Members of more than 200 households dropped off a variety of televisions, computers, printers, microwaves, phones, cameras, scanners, VHS players and tapes, turntables, boomboxes, speakers, cords and other devices — filling two 24-foot panel trucks in a mere two hours.

Thanks to ZWV and the event, those items will now be properly recycled rather than sent to fill the county landfill.

ZWV shared its thanks to the volunteers for maintaining safe traffic flow and unloading all the materials, and the generosity of all the donors who contributed to the organization. ZWV partnered with SBK Recycling in Fife for the electronic recycling events.

In sum, the last eight years have resulted in close to 50 tons of electronics diverted from the landfill and recycled, according to ZWV.

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