Thanks to this assignment I learned something about my town. \u00a0North Arlington, NJ residents are not to discard any electronic equipment on the garbage, or the sidewalk. \u00a0These artifacts must be disposed at 50 Disposal Road in North Arlington. \u00a0You can take it there yourself, or call the Town Hall’s sanitation department to arrange a pick-up Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:30am and 3:30pm. \u00a0I’ve never disposed any large electronic artifact, and the few times I have upgraded anything, the old equipment usually still works, so I either give it away to a friend or donate it to Salvation Army. \u00a0Now, I know what to do in case something breaks.<\/p>\n
My building has a designated area where we place our recyclables and garbage. \u00a0The super comes every morning to put it out on the sidewalk. \u00a0I guess she is the one that makes the call to sanitation every time someone leaves non-recyclable, and non-garbage type of things. \u00a0I’ve never get to see her, though. \u00a0This week nothing exciting happened in our garbage area, so nothing was collected from there. \u00a0Instead, I took a drive to 50 Disposal Road, where I have never been before and had no idea where it was. Here is my map<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThe place is about a 5 minute car ride from my house. \u00a0I took a trip there on Thursday Sept. 1st at 1pm. \u00a0I had not idea what to expect and was not sure where I was going. \u00a0I followed the E-WASTE signs and arrived at a big container full of old TV sets. It’s a open space, and it does not have a pleasant smell. \u00a0Some cars were parked near a building that looked like a loading dock. \u00a0I realized that I could not reach inside the huge container so I went back home to get my steps. \u00a0Once I gain some height, I looked inside and grabbed what I knew I could carry and fit in my car: a couple circuits, a computer router, a keyboard, a Direct TV scanner. \u00a0I tried grabbing a Compaq monitor but couldn’t reach inside, I \u00a0also saw a large flat screen TV \u00a0(I can’t imagine how the owner felt when disposing it. I looks expensive). I ended up grabbing a tube TV set with a sticker that says “works” since it was the easiest to reach and pull without falling from the steps. \u00a0I also added the site to\u00a0Foursquare.<\/a><\/p>\n