ADVISORY/Electronics Recycling Events at Best Buy Stores in Brooklyn Center and Woodbury.

News/Assignment Editors

ADVISORY...for Friday-Saturday (Aug. 3-4)

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Old Computers, TV's and Other Items to be Collected in Parking Lots

Weekend of August 3 and 4 - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day

      What: For two days only, the Best Buy stores in Brooklyn Center
          and Woodbury will serve as recycling collection sites for
          unwanted electronic items.

            The special events will take place in the store parking lots
          on Friday, August 3 and Saturday, August 4 from 10 a.m. to
          5 p.m. each day.

            Collection semi-trailers from the Waste Management-Asset
          Recovery Group will be staffed with personnel that will
          remove items directly from vehicles. Handling fees of $10
          will be charged for computer monitors; television handling
          fees are $15. Representatives from the non-profit Computers
          for Schools Association will be present to determine if
          donated computers can be refurbished and used in Minnesota
          schools.

            The proper disposal of electronic items is an issue of
          growing significance in America. The Brooklyn Center and
          Woodbury events mark the debut of Best Buy's plan to bring
          recycling events to its stores throughout the country. The
          long-term goal of the program is to provide all Best Buy
          customers with an annual opportunity to recycle unwanted
          electronic items. Best Buy is the first consumer-electronics
          retailer to commit to an electronics recycling initiative on
          a national scale.

            Note: Brooklyn Center and Woodbury Best Buy locations only.
          No other Twin Cities Best Buy stores will serve as recycling
          collection sites for this event.

          Accepted items:

          Computers, monitors, printers, fax machines, TV's, stereos,
          camcorders, cellular phones

          Not accepted items:

          Appliances, no simple electric items like lamps, toasters,
          etc.

      Where: Best Buy store in Brooklyn Center
           5925 Earl Brown Drive
           Near Brookdale Mall off of I-694

           Best Buy store in Woodbury
           1555 Queens Drive (Woodbury Village)
           Valley Creek and I-494

      When: Friday, August 3 and Saturday, August 4
          10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day

Minneapolis-based Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) is the nation's number one specialty retailer of consumer electronics, personal computers, entertainment software and appliances. The Company operates retail stores and commercial web sites under the names: Best Buy (BestBuy.com), Magnolia Hi-Fi (MagnoliaHiFi.com), Media Play (MediaPlay.com), On Cue (OnCue.com), Sam Goody (SamGoody.com), and Suncoast (Suncoast.com). The Company reaches consumers through more than 1,800 retail stores nationwide, in Puerto Rico and in the U.S. Virgin Islands.