First Annual E-Waste Fest 2009 Announces Recycled Items List and Entertainment Schedule

On Saturday, September 26, Internet broadcast history will be made as worldwide mover, Arpin Group, joins forces with ABC6 (WLNE), Rhode Island News Channel 5, and Cartridge World to produce a televised festival focused on saving the environment.

E-Waste Fest 2009 is a folk festival and e-waste recycling collection event which will be broadcast live on http://www.ewastefest.com from the Arpin Group campus in West Warwick. This daylong campaign will feature musical acts, entertainment and family activities. A percentage of all donations received from electronic waste collections at E-Waste Fest will benefit Save The Bay, a Rhode Island-based non-profit committed to protecting, restoring and exploring the Narragansett Bay.

The headline act is legendary Rhode Island rhythm & blues dance-band Steve Smith & The Nakeds and will be playing from 3-5 p.m. Other local bands will be playing from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The entertainment schedule is posted on http://www.ewastefest.com and may be subject to change.

E-Waste Fest will accept the following electronic waste items for recycling: CPUs/computers, servers, keyboards, spare computer parts, monitors, laptops, network equipment, mice, laser printers, routers, radios, scanners, fax machines, UPSs, cables and wires, aluminum, copper, cell phones, ink/laser cartridges, TVs, window-unit air conditioners and telephones. All will be accepted for a 20 cents per pound donation. The following items will NOT be accepted at this event: alkaline batteries, white goods, microwaves, toaster ovens and de-humidifiers along with electrical items such as irons, vacuum cleaners, toys and dust busters, etc.

In order to help reduce concerns about identity theft, E-Waste Fest will offer sensitive document shredding services for 35 cents per pound. There will be a mobile shredding truck at the event.

The E-Waste Festival is scheduled to run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the Arpin campus located at 99 James P. Murphy Industrial Highway, West Warwick, R.I. However, the e-waste collection and paper-shredding will take place in a separate office complex, adjacent to the Arpin campus at Coastal International, 2 Szydlo Drive, West Warwick, just off J.P. Murphy Highway.

For additional information and updates regarding E-Waste Fest 2009, visit http://www.ewastefest.com.