Recycle Your E-Waste At Prospect Park This Sunday

Now that you can no longer leave electronics curbside for collection, you’ll need to figure out alternative ways to get rid of that ancient tube television. One option: an upcoming e-waste recycling event from the Lower East Side Ecology Center.

This Sunday, January 18 from 10am-4pm (rain or shine), you can drop off both working and non-working electronics at the 3rd Street entrance to Prospect Park on Prospect Park West, and LES Ecology will take them off your hands for either refurbishing or recycling.

Here’s what they’ll accept:

• Computers (laptops, desktops, servers, mainframes)
• Monitors
• Printers, scanners, fax-machines, copiers
• Network devices (routers, hubs, modems, etc.)
• Peripherals (keyboards, mice, cables, cords, chargers, etc.)
• Tablets and E-readers
• Components (hard drives, CD-ROMs, circuit boards, power supplies, etc.)
• TVs, VCRs, DVRs, DVD players
• Digital converter boxes, cable/satellite receivers
• Portable music players
• Audio-visual equipment
• Video-games
• Cell phones, pagers, PDAs
• Telecommunication (phones, answering machines, etc.)

They’ll also take batteries, but ask that alkaline and rechargeable batteries are separated, with the terminals of the rechargeable batteries taped up. They cannot accept home appliances such as microwaves, refrigerators, or air conditioners.

Anyone who drops off electronic equipment is eligible to receive a coupon for $25 off a purchase of $100 or more at Tekserve and will be entered in Tekserve’s raffle, where you can win a MacBook Air.

For more info, email LES Ecology at info@lesecologycenter.org or call 212-477-4022.