Electronic Waste Recycling & Document Shredding Event for Seneca County Residents
Date: Saturday October 25, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – Noon
Location: Seneca County Office Building – North Parking Lot: 1 DiPronio Drive, Waterloo, NY 13165
Seneca County residents can bring their unwanted household electronics and confidential documents to the North parking lot of the Seneca County Office Building by entering at the North Road entrance on Saturday, October 25th from 9am to Noon for this year’s Electronics Recycling & Confidential Document Shredding Event. The event is sponsored by Seneca County Cornell Cooperative Extension, Seneca County, and Seneca Meadows, Inc.
No registration is required for electronics recycling and document shredding. Please stay in your vehicle while Seneca Meadows staff, CCE staff, and volunteers assist in unloading unwanted electronics and confidential documents. While supplies last, each vehicle will receive a bag filled with educational information and other conservation tips. There will also be blue recycling bins available as the supply lasts for Seneca County residents who may need to replace their bin or require a second (or third) for their bi-weekly curbside recycling. Seneca County residents are allowed up to 8 blue bins of recycling to be picked up every two weeks.
Acceptable electronics include computers and accessories (monitors, keyboards, cables etc.), entertainment equipment (TV, speakers, game consoles etc.), mobile devices (cell phones, cameras, MP3 etc.), data center equipment (routers, servers etc.), lab and medical equipment (CPAP machines, defibrillators etc.), office equipment (printers, security equipment, answering machines etc.), and miscellaneous items (wires, holiday lights, power tools, small home appliances). Unacceptable items include large appliances (stoves, washing machines etc.), devices containing refrigerant (A/C units, dehumidifiers etc.), common household batteries, medical sharps, vaping devices, broken tube TVs, and devices containing liquids or mercury. A complete list of acceptable and unacceptable items can be found at our website at www.senecacountycce.org.
Your unwanted confidential documents and files will be shred on site by Shred-Text Document Inc. Destruction Services. Confidential documents include tax and business records, old bills, credit card statements, medical records, and other papers that contain personal information that you do not want to have public. Your confidential documents can contain rubber bands, light paper clips, staples, and/or be in hanging file folders as all of that can be shredded. Please remove any binder clips and take paper out of three ring binders. Please do NOT bring junk mail, non-confidential files, newspapers, etc. These can be put in your home blue bin and picked up every two weeks.
“A big thanks to Seneca Meadows and Seneca County. I hope this year we again fill an entire tractor trailer with electronics and fill the document shredder truck as well.” said CCE Seneca Environmental/Natural Resources Educator Ryan Staychock. “Please take a look at the list of acceptable items and gather up your broken or obsolete electronics to be safely and responsibly disposed of. With the confidential document shredding, people have been doing a great job of bringing us mostly things that had personal information on them. We will again have replacement or extra blue bins available from the County Recycling Office for county residents. We hope to see everyone with things to recycle and shred by noon on Saturday.”
CCE Seneca provides recycling education in the county. A complete list of what can and cannot recycle in Seneca County as well as pick up schedules can be found at www.senecarecycles.org. Seneca Meadows also hosts a recycling drop-off location if people have more or miss their pick-up week. Any questions about the event can be directed to the office at 315-539-9251 or emailing [email protected].