Free Electronic Waste Collection Event at Rose Bowl Announced

The City of Pasadena will host a free electronic waste recycling event this Saturday at the Rose Bowl Stadium, offering residents a safe disposal option for obsolete technology and sensitive documents.

The event on Saturday, Dec. 7 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., will take place in Parking Lot I near Brookside Park at 360 North Arroyo Boulevard, according to a statement from Lisa Derderian, the city’s Public Information Officer.

This initiative by the Department of Public Works will accept a comprehensive range of electronic items that should never be disposed of in regular trash or recycling containers, including computers, keyboards, printers, monitors, laptops, docking stations, and scanners.

Additional accepted items include shredders, fax machines, computer mouses, telephones, televisions, PDAs, cassette players, tape drives, stereos, and household, fluorescent, and LED light bulbs.

In addition to electronics recycling, the City will provide complimentary paper shredding services, allowing residents to bring up to three legal-size boxes of sensitive documents for secure disposal.

For shredding, acceptable items include receipts, checks, outdated tax returns, credit card statements, pre-approved credit applications, pre-printed envelopes, return address labels, and business cards, with materials removed from ring binders and bulldog clips.

The duration of the recycling event will depend on truck capacity, Derderian said. The service is exclusively available to Pasadena residents. Proof of residency is required.

For more information, call (626) 744-7311 or email recycle@cityofpasadena.net.