Nearly 270 people showed up Saturday in Nashville for the annual Nash County Recycles Day, bringing vehicles full of documents for shredding, used electronics and prescription medications.
Conducted by Keep America Beautiful of Nash and Edgecombe counties, the event was held in the parking lot of the Nash County Courthouse and was staffed by volunteers from the Nash County Sheriff’s Office, City of Rocky Mount, Nash and Edgecombe county solid waste departments and the Habitat for Humanity Restore.
It was the first time that the Habitat for Humanity Restore sent a truck to the event.
“We got quite a few donations of computer electronics,” said Kaye Dickens of Habitat for Humanity.
Dickens said Habitat received about seven working computer monitors, which will be tested before being offered to customers. Dickens said they also salvaged several bicycles, two bed frames, an external entrance door and other items to be re-used rather than being tossed in a landfill.
The site was organized by Nash County deputies, who put up cones and directed cars to various stations for paper shredding, prescription drug drop offs or electronics recycling.
“A lot of paper was shredded that needed to be,” said Nash County Solid Waste Manager Ben Barnes, who added that most people brought documents with their names or other personal information on it.
Chris and Samantha Lewis of Nashville attended for the first time with five years’ worth of personal documents to be shredded that had been taking up room in their basement.
“It’ll be good to get that room back for something else,” Chris Lewis said.