The League of Women Voters Community Recycling Committee will host its annual Estes Recycles Day on Saturday, August 9, from 9 am to noon at the Events Complex Main Parking. The event is open to residents and small businesses.

As usual, Rotary will provide onsite shredding of documents. The fee is $15 per 30 lb box. One hundred percent of the shredding proceeds go to EPHS high school scholarships. The shredded paper is transported and pulped and turned into other paper products, such as paper towels. (Documents shredded at home by individuals must go in trash to the landfill.)

This year the Estes Park Rotary Clubs (Noon and Sunrise) are also accepting walkers, crutches and wheelchairs for their Crutches for Africa project. For more information specific to this project, visit www.crutches4africa.org or email c4a@crutches4africa.org.

At Electronics, computers and monitors will be accepted for $5; TVs for $10-$20, depending on size; and smoke detectors for $5. Large electronics will be limited to five per vehicle.

Most smaller electronic items such as phones, cameras, blenders, hair dryers and similar will be accepted for recycling without charge.

Recycling at the Scrap Metal station includes microwaves (remove the glass plate). Metal items must be 50% metal or more by weight and contain no refrigerants. Large items will be limited to five per vehicle. No major appliances can be accepted.

Bike tires and tubes will also be collected at the event. Eco-Cycle will be on site to load the accepted materials and transport them to its Boulder facility.

Generous funding from Village Thrift Shop, Premier Members Credit Union of Estes Park and Estes Valley Sunrise Rotary Club, along with a Community Initiative Grant from the Town, offsets the significant costs associated with running this popular event and allows us to offer you much lower fees for electronics recycling.

We need more volunteers! If you can help at the event, please email Lisa at EstesRecyclesDay2025@gmail.com as soon as possible.

Additional information is at https://lwv-estespark.org/