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Get rewarded for recycling your old appliances with DTE Energy

DTE Energy is committed to helping our customers maximize their home energy savings by sharing the benefits of increasing energy efficiency and simple, no-cost changes to help lower their energy bills.

To continue this effort, we are partnering with Second Ebenezer Church in Detroit to host our third appliance recycling drop-off event of the year on Saturday, August 5th from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Customers with an active DTE residential electric account are eligible to participate and will receive a $100 gift card for each large appliance and a $30 gift card for each small appliance recycled at the event. Recycling old appliances such as a refrigerator, freezers, dehumidifiers, or air conditioners could save customers up to $80 or more each year in energy costs.

Recycling events like this offer many environmental benefits such as encouraging customers to upgrade to an energy-efficient or ENERGY STAR®-certified model or discard their secondary appliances – to keep the appliances out of landfills. Replacing that appliance with one that is ENERGY STAR-certified could save customers nearly $260 over the lifetime of the appliance while helping them reduce climate change. The appliances are dismantled, and the parts are recycled in an environmental