Get rid of all that old electronic equipment just taking up space in your apartment at this month’s special recycling days (photo by twi-ny/mdr)
Saturday, May 7, Stanton St. between Bowery & Chrystie St.
Saturday, May 14, West 26th St. between Eighth & Ninth Aves.
Sunday, May 22, Stuyvesant Town, 14th St. Loop, 14th St. & Ave. A
Admission: free, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
212-477-4022
www.lesecologycenter.org
The Lower East Side Ecology Center’s Spring into E-Waste Recycling program got under way April 16 as people bombarded Tekserve on West 23rd St. with outdated computers, monitors, PDAs, printers, scanners, keyboards, mice, phones, cell phones, DVD players, cables, televisions, and other audio/visual equipment. The LESEC, in conjunction with New York State’s 2010 Electronic Equipment Recycling and Reuse Act, is seeking to collect five hundred tons of electronic equipment this year; to get people to finally recycle those old things gathering dust, Tekserve is offering a $25 discount on the purchase of a Mac, iPod, or LaCie hard drive, good through the end of May, to anyone who recycles some kind of equipment, so yes, you’ll get a little green by going green.