Simi Valley Education Foundation recently held three FREE community E-WASTE Recycling Days -- October 15, 16, and 17 -- geared towards reaching more people and businesses. On Thursday and Friday, October 15 and 16, at the Elegant Gardens Nursery, 2046 Tierra Rejada Road in Moorpark, individuals and businesses came in record numbers to drop off their e-waste. As a special incentive, the nursery offered 20% off purchase of plants, one gallon to 36” box size,  with every drop-off during those two days. For those who couldn't make those days there was another FREE collection day on Saturday, October 17 at the Simi Valley Unified School District parking lot – with easy curbside drop off. Trucks were stationed during all three collection days to haul away unwanted computer monitors, television sets, plasma screens, laptops, keyboards, LCDs, cameras, stereos, cell phones, printers and other electronic items. The Simi Valley Education Foundation thanks everyone who participated in this event and helped the Simi Valley Education Foundation earn money for every pound of E-waste recycled. All proceeds go to our public schools!!   Community Joins in to Collect Eectronic Waste! Mounds of junked computers, keyboards, monitors and aging TVs covered the Simi Valley Unified School Districts’ parking lot on Saturday, May 16, 2009 as the Simi Valley Education Foundation hosted our second e-waste collection drive. The piles were stacked on pallets, shrink-wrapped, and loaded onto tractor-trailer trucks.   As major consumers of technology, Americans create mountains of electronic waste. Millions of pounds of electronic waste from residents and businesses end up in landfills every year.  Starting before the scheduled open time of 9:00 a.m., residents started arriving to drop off their electronic waste items.  In conjunction with E-Green recyclers, the Simi Valley Education Foundation collected items as a community awareness program and fundraiser.  All proceeds from this fundraiser goes directly into our Simi Valley Unified School system in the form of classroom and school-wide grants, scholarships, and community programs.  Mark your calendar now – our next collection will be October 17, 2009. =============================================================== First E-Waste Day A Success! Simi Valley Education Foundation held its first-ever E-WASTE Recycling Day last October, for items such as computers, laptops, monitors, televisions, scanners, cell phones, printers, fax machines, answering machines and keyboards. Don't call it junk -- it's e-waste. In its prime, perhaps only a year or two ago, it was the largest monitor, the fastest computer, the "newest and latest” TV. Today, it's e-waste: outdated, unwanted electronic equipment, plucked from closets, spare bedrooms and garages and now was recycled at this community-wide recycling day. More than 106,000 pounds of e-waste was collected, sorted and recycled. This Spring we are looking to do it again...this time BIGGER! And what's more -- all proceeds went directly to our public schools!!