ADA, OK -- The city of Ada kicked off its fifth year of electronic recycling on Monday where anyone can bring in their old electronics and the city will recycle them for free. Katrina Gutierrez has more of how you can properly dispose of your “e-waste.”

It might not be time for spring cleaning, but if you still have a pile of junk in your garage that you can't seem to get rid of the City of Ada may have a solution.

"Today is the first day of the e-waste program. This is an opportunity for everybody in Ada to bring old VCRs, old computers, anything that's electronic waste except for TV sets," says Ada recycling coordinator Stan Fullingim.

Crews have been boxing up a variety of e-waste all day. Fullingim says they've received 32 boxes full of electronics so far, but that's still not as much as he's seen in the past.

"We'd like to see a little more public participation. There hasn't been a great number of individuals dropping things off," Fullingim says.

Fullingim says the majority of the electronics have come from the Chickasaw Nation and a research lab. After this week the electronics will be sent to Natural Evolutions in Tulsa. There, Fullingim says their parts will be recycled.

"E-waste is a bad thing to put in your landfill. The monitors are full of heavy metals and lead, and batteries have a number of really bad chemicals in them. It's better to recycle it then to bury it in a landfill."

One major incentive to recycle your old computer or those extension cords is helping to reduce the risk of contaminating groundwater.

"There is a potential for heavy metals to leach into the groundwater and contaminate the drinking water. It helps that out a lot. This is not the stuff you want in your landfill."

The City of Ada encourages you to get rid of your junk the environmentally friendly and free way to do so—by recycling.

Residents can take their old electronics to the ICON Center in Ada this week Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. And if you have any paint or pesticides lying around that you'd like to get rid of, you can bring them by East Central Stadium this Saturday.