For those of you with a stack of old iPads in your junk drawer and no idea how to safely dispose of them, you now need look no further than Maria Hernandez Park. On April 13, 2013 the Lower East Side Ecology Center, in partnership with the Bushwick Eco Action Network and sponsored by Tekserve, will hold an E-Waste Recycling event in the park from 10 AM to 4 PM.
You can drop off any of your old computers, printers, fax machines, tablets, VCRs, video-games, cell-phones, pages, and more. But don’t bring home appliances – they won’t take microwaves or air conditioners because they don’t pose the same environmental risk that other electronics do.
Worried that some nefarious vintage elctronics collecter is gonna snag your old computer and find out that you were sending dirty emails to your cousin in 1999? Well, have no fear. The Ecology Center’s in-house technicians wipe the hard drive of any computer that’s up for refurbishment. All of the other electronics are destroyed by the recycling companies.
