Get rid of all that old electronic equipment just taking up space in your apartment at this month’s special recycling day (photo by twi-ny/mdr)
Tekserve
119 West 23rd St. between Sixth & Seventh Aves.
Saturday, July 16, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
212-477-4022
www.lesecologycenter.org
In May, the Lower East Side Ecology Center sponsored several Spring into E-Waste Recycling days, during which people could bring their broken, out-of-date computers, monitors, PDAs, printers, scanners, keyboards, mice, phones, cell phones, DVD players, cables, televisions, and other audio/visual equipment to several locations in conjunction with Tekserve, which offered special coupons in exchange. On July 16, they’re teaming up again for Summer E-Waste Recycling Day, being held at Tekserve on West 23rd St. 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; visit the above website to see exactly what they will accept and, perhaps more important, what they won’t. For example, such home appliances as microwaves, refrigerators, and air conditioners are a no.