Spring E-Waste Recycling

One month after this year’s Earth Day, State Senator Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr. is teaming up with his colleagues in government Assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar and Councilman Robert Holden to bring their bi-annual e-waste recycling event to Forest Park.

On Sunday, May 22 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the elected officials will have the Lower East Side Ecology Company at the Forest Park Bandshell Parking Lot where they will be collecting old and broken electronics to be properly recycled.

Electronics that will be accepted during the event are: 

• Computers (laptops & desktops, servers, mainframes); 
• Monitors (CRT and flat screen); 
• Handheld devices (smartphones, tablets, MP3 players, e-readers, etc.); 
• Network devices (routers, hubs, modems, etc.); 
• Peripherals (keyboards, mice, cables, cords, chargers, etc.); 
• Components (hard drives, CD-ROMs, circuit boards, power supplies, etc.); 
• Printers, scanners, fax-machines, etc.; 
• TVs, VCRs, DVRs, DVD & Blu-ray Players; 
• Digital Converter Boxes, Cable/Satellite Receivers; 
• Audio-visual equipment (cameras, microphones, etc.); 
• Video-game consoles and accessories; 
• Cell phones, pagers, PDAs; 
• Stereo equipment; 
• Landline phones/answering machines; 
• Extension cords. 

Items that will NOT be accepted are: 

• Batteries of any kind; 
• Floppy disks/VHS tapes/CDs/DVDs/cassette tapes; 
• Smoke detectors; 
• Medication; 
• Any hazardous materials or paint; 
• Household appliances.