Donation Drive

Did you clean out your closets, bookshelves and electronics? Donate and recycle your items for a good cause!

Save the Date:

Thursday – May 14th, 11:30 am – 2:00 pm

Parking Lot Behind Hudson’s Grille

6317 Roswell Road, Sandy Springs

Your donations will help provide urgently needed funds to support Sandy Springs Education Force’s COVID-19 Response. Students missed several months of personal interaction and assistance due to the pandemic. SSEF is planning to provide a supplemental literacy program this summer to help fill in any gaps.

Clothing and Household Goods will be Donated to Charity Recycling Services for No Charge

Electronics (non-working or working will be wiped clean on recycle day) will go to eWaste ePlanet for a minimum donation of $15 per car to SSEF. Please bring exact change, check or pay online via the orange button via this link on our Donate page and bring your donation receipt.

eWaste ePlanet will require additional, per pound charges to recycle some items. (See below for details.)

Both companies recycle everything.  Nothing goes into a landfill.

CLOTHING/HOUSEHOLD GOODS DRIVE

No Charge for clothing/household donations. SSEF will be paid by the pound by Charity Recycling Services. All details are listed on this flier.

• Please have all items in plastic bags and any breakable items should be in boxes.

• If you have children’s /young adult books, please have them in a separate box for the SSEF Mini Libraries Program.

• We will be collecting: all types of clothing, shoes, boots, all athletic gear and clothing, backpacks, luggage, purses, briefcases, sheets, towels, draperies, books, decorative items, stuffed animals, trophies, small appliances and household items.

• We cannot accept furniture, bed pillows or mattresses.

Download a document HERE detailing what you can and cannot bring. Charity Recycling Services, founded in 1999, responsibly recycles all of the items and nothing, regardless of quality, goes into a landfill.

 

ELECTRONICS DRIVE – For all details, please download this flier.

 

Donation of $15 per car to SSEF. Please pay via the orange Donate button on our Donate page and bring your receipt with your electronics:

Or, please bring exact change or check made out to Sandy Springs Education Force.

Additional per pound charges for a few items listed below are payable to eWaste ePlanet and will be calculated and collected onsite.

• Accepted Personal & Corporate Electronics: Laptops/Desktops/Servers, Hard Drives, Monitors, IT Equipment, Cellphones, Printers/Copiers/Scanners/FAXS, Flat-screen TVs, Phone Systems, Business Phones Systems, Networking Equipment, Power Distribution Systems, Lab & Medical Equipment, Point of Sale Systems, Small Electronics, (microwaves, DVD Players, Cameras, Projectors, etc.), Ink/Toner Cartridges, Circuit Boards, Cords and Cables.
• Certificates of data destruction-CODs are available at no charge for 10+ non-end-of-life computers, servers and hard drives.  Please box, tape and provide all contact information.

Additional charges payable to eWaste ePlanet are incurred for the following. A scale will be on-site to weigh these items and the per-pound charges for these items to be recycled can be paid directly to eWaste ePlanet. Please bring cash, check or charge card for them:

• CRT – 40 cents/pound

• Flatscreen TVs – 25 cents/pound

• Alkaline Batteries – $1/pound

• Printers – 25 cents/pound

We cannot accept light bulbs, hazardous waste, radioactive waste materials containing liquids.

eWaste ePlanet is a full-service IT asset disposition, data destruction & electronics recycling company servicing the majority of Atlanta’s commercial high-rises, and >3,000 national, state and local businesses. All electronics with data (personal or corporate) will be wiped to NIST 800-88 standards. Zero landfill/EPA compliant recycling.

We will be keeping our Social Distance.
Drop off will be one car at a time, just pop the trunk and masked volunteers will remove your items.

Receipts for SSEF will be given onsite or you can donate to SSEF online
and bring a copy of your receipt.  

If you have questions you can contact DeeAnn Weprinsky at [email protected].

If you have electronics to donate, please be sure to donate via the DONATE button on our page, pay the minimum $15 charge and print out your receipt to bring to the collection site. Thank you very much for your support!