HAGERSTOWN, Md. — BookDrop.com has drop-off bins in both Hagerstown and Smithsburg for an organization that collects discarded books for bulk mass resale. The drop-offs in Washington County area;
– Hagerstown: the Washington County solid waste facility, 12630 Earth Care Road
– Smithsburg: the Greensburg Transfer Station, 13125 Bikle Road
The bins take hardcover and paperback books, textbooks, children’s books, CDs and DVDs. Books that can still be read get a second life through resale, and the rest are recycled as paper, so nothing that goes in a bin ends up in a landfill. Residents have put about 8,600 pounds of books through these bins in the past year.
The one thing BookDrop asks is that magazines, newspapers and encyclopedias not be donated. More information can be found at bookdrop.com.
