The City of Houston's Solid Waste Management Department and CompuCycle have partnered to provide a permanent electronics recycling drop-off site for Houstonians to recycle their electronics responsibly at the CompuCycle building located at 7700 Kempwood, Houston, 77055.  The partnership also provides monthly one-day collection events on Saturdays at three neighborhood City of Houston recycling centers.

Recycling electronics keeps potentially harmful materials, such as mercury, cadmium, lead and cathode ray tubes out of the waste stream and the environment.

Permanent drop-off site:

The permanent location is 7700 Kempwood, Houston 77055 in the Spring Branch area.  It is open Monday - Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Once a month drop-off sites:

The monthly Saturday electronics recycling will be held 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the:

• Kingwood Metro Transit Center (1st Saturday of the month) 3210 West Lake Houston Parkway, Houston 77339
• Ellington/Clear Lake Neighborhood Recycling Center (2nd Saturday of the month), Highway 3 @ Brantley Road, Houston 77037
• Center Street Recycling Center (3rd Saturday of the month) 3602 Center Street, Houston 77007

Electronic Items accepted:

Personal computers, servers, keyboards, mice, laptops, game consoles, monitors, small kitchen appliances, memory chips, hubs and routers, printers, copiers, scanners, fax machines,  projectors, rechargeable batteries, cable boxes, car batteries, telephones, cell phones, PDAs (personal digital assistants), tape drives, hard drives, cords, cables and cameras.

In addition to electronics recycling, all four locations are drop-off sites for common household recyclables such as paper, plastics, aluminum and glass.

For more information see http://www.houstonsolidwaste.org/  or contact Sandra Jackson at 713.837.9152.