City of Clearwater Discontinues Electronic Waste Collection Day Events

The Clearwater Solid Waste/Recycling Department has discontinued its electronic waste collection days and will no longer host them because electronics without rechargeable batteries can now be disposed of in your trash. 

Household electronics that are affected include televisions, computer monitors, computer CPUs or towers, laptops, tablets, cell phones and items with rechargeable batteries that cannot be removed.

If your electronic has rechargeable batteries, take out just the rechargeable battery out of your electronic, or bring the entire item to a Pinellas County household chemical collection event.

As of October 2022, Pinellas County and the city of Clearwater no longer send electronics to a private electronics recycler. Instead, they go to the waste-to-energy plant, where metals are recovered and recycled and plastic casings are burned to create energy.