Did you know Australia generates more than 140,000 tonnes of electronic waste per year?

Most of this e-waste ends up in landfill, when at least 90 per cent of the materials used to create these items can be recovered and reused.

To help residents recycle these items, Central Coast Council will be holding a free e-waste collection weekend at the Gosford Showground on Saturday 26 November and Sunday 27 November 2016.

Open between 9am and 4pm on both days, the event is open to everyone – with commercial quantities also accepted.

The drop off day targets every day household items such as televisions, computers, DVD players and other items people find difficult to dispose of in an environmentally friendly way.

Items that will be accepted as part of the e-waste drop off include:

• Computers, monitors, notebooks, printers, fax machines, scanners, CD drives, hard drives, keyboards, mice and printer cartridges;
• Televisions, VCR players, DVD players, projectors;
• Electronic games/toys, stereos, cameras, video cameras, iPods and MP3 players; and
• Networking equipment, modems and cables.

The items that will not be accepted include:

• Microwaves, whitegoods and other small appliances;
• Vacuum cleaners, power tools and non-computer batteries.

Gosford Showground is located on Showground Road, Gosford.

If you can’t make this weekend’s drop off day, you can recycle e-waste year-round at the following locations (maximum 15 items per visit):

• Buttonderry Waste Management Facility;
• Woy Woy Landfill; and
• Kincumber Transfer Station.

For more information, visit centralcoast.nsw.gov.au or phone 4325 8222.