Yard Sale Day & Recycling Event Return June 7
Yard sales, tag sales, garage sales, estate sales. Whatever you call them, they’re part of the great American tradition of recycling our possessions to avoid waste and perhaps pick up some spare change while also cleaning out our homes. It therefore comes as no surprise that our ever-helpful UH Community Association will once again assist us with this important task next month, on June 7, when maps to participating Yard Sale Day homes will be available. Importantly, UH folks with no “yard” from which to display their temptingly affordable wares will have the opportunity to set up shop in Birney’s parking lot for the morning, courtesy of Friends of Alice Birney Elementary and UHCA. Make sure to check out the details about how to participate in the ad below this article.
Additionally, folks with a banker’s box full of paper to be shredded or electronic equipment past its useful life, can, for a fee, drop those items off at the Birney site on June 7 to be shredded / recycled by EnviroGreen Electronic Recycling. Even used batteries (NiCad, Alkaline) will be collected, for a dollar a pound, which is great news because it’s crucial to avoid tossing batteries into our curbside bins. They can spark garbage truck fires when compressed with other trash and should never be buried in the landfill due to highly toxic metals that leach into the soil and groundwater. Note that even if you can’t make the June 7 recycling event, anyone with used-up batteries at home is always welcome to drop them off at Staples down on Camino de la Reina or any other battery drop-off location. Check call2recycle.org for other nearby sites. Options for recycling other household items include our local Hillcrest Goodwill store on University, which now accepts electronics!
And speaking of OPTIONS and TRASH, homeowners, whom the city plans to charge for trash collection very soon, on top of already high property tax bills, actually have a method for fighting back against the new fee. Those who prefer to reject the fee, which was sold to voters as being around $25 per month but is now planned to be over twice that amount, can register their rejection via the mailer that should be arriving around the same time that this issue of the paper comes out. Some in UH believe rejecting what they see as a bait-and-switch money grab would send a message that homeowners require elected and civil service officials to always tell the truth. We’ll soon see, either way.
Happy May and Happy Yard Sale Day!
