About once a month in our town they have a local recycling and shredding event. It usually takes place at some shopping center parking lot or the local high school’s parking lot. You can bring documents to shred and you can also recycle old batteries, old cellphones, old computers/laptops, older printers, and florescent lightbulbs. I think they also take other stuff as well, such as TVs and old cans of paint.
They usually advertise the event via fliers in local businesses, signs at major intersections, online, via the town magazine, etc.
One of our local boy scout troops put together a recycling event, we took our daughter’s old laptop as well as some batteries and old cellphones. This next weekend, we’re going to a county-wide recycling/shredding event to get rid of some old documents that we no longer need. It’s being held at the county fair grounds. My sister and her husband live in a retirement community that had an electronic recycling/disposal event put on by some environmental non-profit. I’d definitely look up and see if any are happening near you…
Or you could just burn it in the backyard! Just like Homer Simpson burned old lightbulbs in a “safe and environmentally friendly manner” in the backyard.