Artesia Clean & Beautiful will be hosting its 17th Annual eWaste Collection event June 21-22 at the food court at the Eddy County Fairgrounds.

We will be accepting all of your office-related equipment, fax machine, copiers, typewriters, CPUs, consumer electronics including DVD and VCR players and video game consoles, radios, telephones and cell phones, server and telecom equipment, cameras, and stereo equipment. There will be a charge of $5 for the big CRT monitors. Home appliances will not be accepted.

If you are not comfortable with your hard drive leaving your hands, take it out and take out all of those frustrations on it with a sledgehammer. Natural Evolution, which is the company that will be taking the eWaste is insured and bonded and assures us that all hard drives will be erased by military standards. None of this electronic waste will be rebuilt; it will all be torn down into various piles of metals and plastics.

Along with the eWaste Collection, CARC Document Destruction will also be there from 9 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Friday accepting up to 100 pounds of documents that you would like to have destroyed. This is for residential only. Remember, this beats sitting there for hours feeding your shredder one page at a time. It’s a great way to get rid of all of those old tax forms and old bills. If you would like a certificate of destruction, they can provide that for you.

Remember, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Friday, June 21, and 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Saturday, June 22. CARC will only be there on Friday from 9 a.m. – 1:30 p.m., so remember to bring your documents then.

As always, do your part to help keep Artesia… Clean and Beautiful. It really does take the entire community to be involved. For more information on any of our programs, please contact our office at 575-748-3192 or come by 422 W. Main St. Follow us on Facebook at Artesia Clean & Beautiful.

(EDITOR’S NOTE: Linda Stevens is the director of Artesia Clean & Beautiful. Contact her at 575-7483192.)