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Second Friday Art Walk returns to Pittston City’s Main Street on May 8

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HAZLETON &#8212; Hazleton Mayor Joseph Yannuzzi announced that Hazleton and neighboring municipalities will hold an electronic recycling event on Saturday.Hazleton, with Hazle, Black Creek, Butler, Foster, and Sugarloaf townships and the boroughs of West Hazleton, Beaver Meadows, Conyngham, Freeland, and McAdoo will host the program from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Brenner Recycling, 282 South Wyoming Street.According to a news release, this event is the largest of its kind for the city of Hazleton and Greater Hazleton Region.All Greater Hazleton area residents and businesses are invited to bring their obsolete or unwanted electronics, where Brenner&#8217;s staff will take them and ensure they are responsibly recycled.Acceptable items include small appliances, stereos, washers, dryers, stoves, televisions, computer monitors, laptop and tower computers, printers, computer mice, keyboards, scrap metal, auto batteries, refrigerators, air conditioners, newspaper and cardboard.Smoke detectors, light bulbs, and household batteries will not be accepted.At the Brenner site, a $20 fee will apply to accept televisions and cathode ray tube (CRT) computer monitors 42 inches and under, and a $50 fee will apply for larger TVs. All other items will be accepted free of charge.Staples will be accepting all CRT computer monitors at no charge at 20 Diana Lane, West Hazleton.Any items containing refrigerants, such as refrigerators and air conditioners, must have the refrigerant removed prior to dropping the items off.All materials collected will be recycled in an environmentally friendly manner, and all media data will be wiped or destroyed.The effort is consistent with Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) efforts, practices and regulations.Yannuzzi invites seniors and disabled residents of the to contact Matt Lazar at Keystone Job Corps Center at (570) 708-0534 to help coordinate home pickups.

Hazleton, surrounding municipalities to hold electronic recycling event Saturday