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Annual Recycling Day
FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 2023
8am - 12pm
Oldsmar Sports Complex - 3120 Tampa Rd
** Enter via Tampa Road and Exit onto Curlew Road**
This event is FREE to residents & businesses
- Limit of 5 (five) boxes per vehicle for shredding services (service provided by Vital Records Control).
- No limit on the number of electronics (service provided by OCM Recycle)
- Please see MEDICATIONS tab for guidelines on this service (provided by Pinellas County Sheriff's Office).
- NOTE: Sheriff's Office CANNOT collect prescription medications for businesses.
SOCIAL DISTANCING - To help reduce risk to all participants, please do not get out of your vehicle. Event staff will remove items from your open trunk or rear of your vehicle. If you have small items (such as medication), please hand them through the window to appropriate staff members. Thank you for your cooperation.
If you wish to witness any paper items shredded on site, you will be allowed to pull over and see the bin (containing your items) lifted and shredded.
2022 Event Numbers
- Total Participants – 187
- Shredding 12,000 pounds
- Medication 60 pounds
- Electronics 1,475 pounds
Unacceptable Items
These items will not be accepted at this event
- CRT Monitors
- Televisions - CLICK HERE for Pinellas County Disposal Options
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What to Shred
Please remember there is a limit of 5 (five) boxes per vehicle for shredding services
- Cancelled Checks
- Correspondences, Memos
- Credit Card Receipts
- Financial Records @(Model.BulletStyle == CivicPlus.Entities.Modules.Layout.Enums.BulletStyle.Decimal ? "ol" : "ul")>
- Invoices
- Legal Documents
- Medical Records
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Acceptable
For Residents only - NO Businesses
Please safely remove medications from bottles and place in zip lock bags.Liquids should remain within their original containers & the caps secured with tape.
Remember to remove labels from the bottles & destroy them.
NOT ACCEPTABLE - Syringes, medical equipment
- Prescription drugs/medicine for people or pets
- Pills
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- Inhalers
- Patches
- Epi-Pens @(Model.BulletStyle == CivicPlus.Entities.Modules.Layout.Enums.BulletStyle.Decimal ? "ol" : "ul")>
What to Recycle
Following Electronics & Accessories are deemed recyclable
- Aluminum
- Batteries - Alkaline
- Batteries - Button
- Batteries - Laptop
- Batteries - Lead Acid
- Batteries - Modem
- Batteries - Primary Lithium
- Batteries - UPS
- Cell Phones @(Model.BulletStyle == CivicPlus.Entities.Modules.Layout.Enums.BulletStyle.Decimal ? "ol" : "ul")>
- Computers
- Copper
- Docking Stations
- Electronic Game Parts
- Fax Machines
- Hard Drives
- Keyboards
- Laptops
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- Metal
- Mouse
- Networking Equipment
- Office Phones
- Printed Circuit Boards
- Printers
- Projectors
- Scanners
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