On Tuesday, October 5, 2010 The Hill School participated in The Tri County Area Chamber of Commerce’s Business Equipment Recycling Day. Students from the Green Initiative( Hill’s sustainability club), Community Service program, and Environmental Science classes collected and dropped off six CRT monitors, 53 keyboards, 25 mice, 23 networking stations and a number of other outdated and unused electronics.
We look forward to continuing our stewardship and keeping our electronic waste from ending up in a landfill. Our work here in Pottstown is helping us as we work towards the bigger picture of a "greener" planet. In 2004, there were 315 million obsolete computers in the U.S. That amounted to 1.2 billion pounds of lead, 2 million pounds of cadmium, and 400,000 pounds of mercury into waste streams. At Hill we make sure our electronics are disposed of properly.