On Saturday, Sept. 28, from 9 a.m.-12 p.m., the Lincoln Southwest music department will be having an Electronics Recycle Drive. There will be a semi-truck coming, and individuals can drop off their unwanted electronics to be recycled. 

“You can bring anything that uses or once used electricity to the drive and we’ll recycle it instead of you trying to figure out if you can throw it away,” Mrs. Alyssa Wilhelm said. “Bring it to us and we’ll take care of it.” 

The truck will be in the D parking lot (the one closest to 14th street). The music department is partnering with Star City Recycling and taking all the electronics donated to them. 

“Mr. (Jacob) Farlander will be there and then we’ll have some student and parent volunteers to help take the stuff from people’s cars,” Wilhelm said. “You don’t even have to get out of your car.”

Anyone in the community can drop off items at the recycle drive. Southwest has had this recycling drive for almost 20 years. 

“We usually try and have the drive sometime in the middle to end of September,” Wilhelm said. “Then we try to have the drive again in April close to Earth Day.” 

There are fees on some items when dropping them off at the electronic drive like TVs, microwaves and things that have chemicals that are hazardous.The recycling company will take out all the hazardous chemicals that are in the electronics once the truck takes them to Star City Recycling. 

“There are usually about 10 band members there to help you. They all wear either LSW music polos or pep band spirit jerseys,” senior Ristyn Steffensmeier said. “When you recycle these items you give them a new life.”