Sims Recycling Solutions Partners With the San Jose Sharks and HP to Host and Electronics Recycling Event

SAN JOSE, CA October 28, 2010 (Press-News.org) Sims Recycling Solutions, the world's largest electronics recycler is partnering with the San Jose Sharks and HP in an effort to encourage the community and local Sharks hockey fans to recycle their electronics. The event will be held in the Main Parking lot of HP Pavilion at San Jose at 525 W Santa Clara St., San Jose, CA on October 30, 2010 from 9:00am-1:00pm.

Everyone bringing an item to recycle will be able to watch the Sharks morning skate and will also receive a raffle ticket for a chance to win merchandise signed by members of the San Jose Sharks hockey team.

The e-waste collection event will be set up as a drive through and drop off event. Staff will be on site to collect items from your car quickly and conveniently. For added convenience, if you are dropping off a monitor or a TV for recycling, please print and complete the collection log found at the http://www.us.simsrecycling.com/sharks website.

Sims Recycling Solutions will accept the following: televisions (TVs), monitors, computers, laptops, cell phones, telephones, printers, speakers, keyboards, mice, PDAs, radios, stereos, MP3s, DVDs, CD Players, and VCRs (etc). Sims Recycling Solutions cannot accept household appliances, smoke detectors, microwaves, batteries, ink/toner cartridges, and cans/bottles.

Sims Recycling Solutions is a proud sponsor of the San Jose Sharks and the Sharks Green Territory Webpage.

Sims Recycling Solutions
Sims Recycling Solutions (www.us.simsrecycling.com) is the world's largest electrical and electronics recovery and recycling company with 37 sites across the globe.

Sims Recycling Solutions recycles all types of electronic equipment and enables businesses to meet both their social and legal obligations in the treatment of surplus electronics. The company's asset management and recovery service enables businesses and public sector organizations to sustain the value of IT and electronic equipment, in a legally compliant, data secure, fully traceable and environmentally sustainable manner.

In North America, Sims Recycling Solutions operates 11 sites in Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Nevada, Ontario, South Carolina and Tennessee.

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