Need To Recycle?? Spring Cleaning With Nevada Public Radio On Sat. 4/27!

For those looking to unclutter, who may be in the midst of spring cleaning, Nevada Public Radio will once again bring together multiple organizations that specialize in or benefit from recycling for a community-wide spring recycling event on Saturday, April 27 from 8 a.m. until noon. This event, sponsored by Subaru of Las Vegas, is free and open to the public.

Nevada Public Radio will hold the recycling event in the parking lot at The Donald W. Reynolds Broadcast Center on the Campus on the College of Southern Nevada (1289 S. Torrey Pines Dr., Las Vegas, NV 89146). Participating organizations and services available are:

Shred-it: paper shredding, document destruction and computer hard drive destruction for working and non-working hard drives. Hard drives must be removed from the computer before they will be crushed and the crushed hard drive remains will be recycled.

Blind Center of Nevada: recycling or re-purposing electronics such as computers (including data erasing,) printers, appliances, mobile phones, etc.

Republic Services: recycling of commingled household and business recyclables such as plastic bottles, metals including steel and aluminum cans, cardboard, magazines, newspapers, junk mail, phone books, paper bags and glass (separation of materials is not required).

For further information about the Nevada Public Radio spring recycling event, visit www.knpr.org.

About Nevada Public Radio

Nevada Public Radio (NVPR) was established in 1975 as an independent, not-for-profit, public benefit corporation. NVPR signed on the air in 1980 with one station serving the Las Vegas area as Nevada's first National Public Radio (NPR(r)) affiliate station.  For more than three decades, NVPR has remained true to its mission to enhance the quality of life and foster civic engagement by informing, educating and inspiring a growing audience through public media – including content on air, in print and online. NVPR's broadcast network includes seven FM stations serving the greater Las Vegas metropolitan area with News 88.9 KNPR and Classical KCNV 89.7. Combined with five associate stations, 10 translator stations and associated HD digital channels, KNPR serves a geographical area of more than 66,000 square miles - plus parts of California, Utah and Arizona. NVPR is the publisher of the award-winning Desert Companion monthly magazine and the producer of KNPR’s State of Nevada. Further information is available at www.knpr.org, www.classical897.org and www.desertcompanion.com.