The Gun Lake Tribe and Gun Lake Casino are inviting the public to take advantage of an opportunity to properly dispose of obsolete electronic items at an electronics recycling event Thursday, June 9 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. in conjunction with local electronics recycler Comprenew. The collection will be in the parking lot on the east side of the Gun Lake Tribe TRC building, directly across from the casino at 1150 129th Street in Wayland Township.

Office and household electronics, cell phones, radios, microwaves, VCRs and TVs, computer laptops, monitors, keyboards and mice, printers, speakers and power cords will be accepted. Comprenew will erase or destroy all computer hard drives.  A $10 fee is required to recycle tube-style television and computer monitors; the tribe will sponsor the cost of the first 200 such units. //

Comprenew uses best practices in the electronics recycling and data security industry; they do not ship e-waste overseas and the zero-landfill policy requires that all e-waste received is recycled, refurbished or reused. The tribe and casino support recycling efforts because electronic waste in landfills can leak harmful toxins into the soil and groundwater, a growing concern for the environment.