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AUBURN — A joint Cayuga County-Auburn recycling event netted 25,000 pounds of old televisions, computer monitors, and other electronics for the area’s 10th annual America Recycles Day Electronics Event.

“It’s a good event. A lot of this stuff would end up illegally dumped on a back road,” said Eric Lepak, the labor foreman at the Auburn landfill where the electronics were collected.

A steady stream of 312 cars and trucks pulled through the landfill from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday to drop off old electronics, fluorescent light bulbs, small Freon appliances, batteries and other items, said Bruce Natale, Cayuga County’s environmental engineer.

EWASTE+, a Victor electronics recycler, will recycle about 96 percent of the computer and television components, he said.

The service was free to the public. In all, the collection netted a truck full of Freon appliances and enough electronics to fill a trailer and a box truck making it the third largest collection since the event began, Natale said.

The county collected 220,000 pounds of electronics for recycling in the first nine years of the event, he said.